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GENEALOGY 




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DESCENDANTS 



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LUKE FISH, Sr. 

IN 

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 

FROM 

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COMPILED BY 



DAVID FISH, 

A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. 



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PREFACE 

The Pishes, whose genealogy is given 
in these pages, are said to be the de- 
scendants of a family of that name who, 
emigrating from Normandy with William 
the Conqueror, landed in England in 
1066. That the Fishes settled in the North 
of England is highly probable, not only 
from the fact that history records how 
William the Conqueror suppressed up- 
risings in the North of England in the 
years 1068 and 1069, harassing Northum- 
berland, and again in 1070, driving back 
the Scottish King, but also from the 
fact that several of the older members 
of the Fish family given here were born 
in Carlisle, in the County of Cumberland, 
which is situate in the North of Eng] 
and which is familiarly known as the 
"Bord( r City." 

For six generations o*f the Fish family 
it is said that the eldest son had been 
named Luke, and, strange as it may 
seem, each had married a woman whose 
christian name was Margaret. This cus- 
tom, however, was broken by Luke 
Fish, Jr., born in Carlisle, England, Ma} 
22, 1787. He married a woman by the 
name of Mary, and their eldest son was 
christened William, though their fifth 
child was named Luke Sidney. 

Little is known about the ancestors of 
Luke Fish, Sr., and the only one of the 
family of which he was a member, of 
whom anything is known, was Mary 
Fish, his sister, who was born in Stan- 
wix, Carlisle, England, in the year 1756. 
She was unmarried, and taught a private 
school in Stanwix up to the time ad- 
vancing years compelled her to relin- 
quish the work. She died in 1848, in her 
93d year. 

Although the Fish family is scattered 
over all the seas, it is not recorded in 
these pages that there were any whales 
among them, though there were many 
schools of little Fishes. 



INDEX TO PORTRAITS 



Page 
Ashworth. Mary, mother of Sarah 

Ann Fish 66 

Ashworth, William, father of Sarah 

Ann Fish 66 

Catharine, wife of William Fish 5 

David, son of Nicholas Fish 60 

David Harrison, son of David Fish... 64 
Dickensheets, John Dillman, husband 

of Jane Fish 77 

Edward, son of Luke Fish, Jr 28 

Edward, son of Luke Fish, Sr 51 

Edward Charles, son of David Fish ... 63 
Edward Duncombe, son of Nicholas 

Fish 55 

Elizabeth, daughter of Luke Fish, Jr. 18 
George Washington, son of Luke Fish, 

Jr 42 

Hannah, daughter of Luke Fish, Jr... 46 

Hannah, wife of Edward Fish 50 

Hannah, wife of Nicholas Fish 53 

Hannah, daughter of Nicholas Fish.. 71 

Isabella, daughter of Nicholas Fish.. 68 

James, son of Luke Fish, Jr 39 

Jane, daughter of Nicholas Fish 58 

Jane, daughter of Edward Fish 76 

Dawson Frederick, son of Nicholas 

Fish 70 

Louise Jane, daughter of William Fish 8 

Luke, Jr., son of Luke Fish, Sr 2 

Luke Sidney, son of Luke Fish, Jr... 26 

Margaret, daughter of Luke Fish, Jr.. 15 

Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Fish.. 59 

Margaret, wife of Richard Fish 73 

Margaret, daughter of Edward Fish.. 75 

Mary, daughter of Nicholas Fish 56 

Mary Jane, daughter of Luke Fish, Jr 33 
Moorhouse, James, great-grandfather 

of Sarah Ann Fish 67 

Nicholas, family of, son of Edward 

Fish 52 

Richard, son of Nicholas Fish 69 

Richard, son of Edward Fish 72 

Richard Ashworth, son of David Fish. 65 

Sarah Ann, wife of David Fish 61 

William, son of Luke Fish, Jr 4 

William, son of Nicholas Fish 69 

William Nicholas, son of David Fish.. 62 



LUKE FISH, SR. 

Luke Fish, Sr., was born in the year 
1760, in Stanwix, Cumberland County, 
England. Nothing definite is known about 
his parents, except that his mother, 
whose maiden name was Margaret Ruth- 
erford, came from the Borderland, a 
name given to the immediate vicinity of 
the old Roman wall that divided Eng- 
land from Scotland. Luke Fish, Sr., mar- 
ried Margaret Smith, who was born in 
London, England, of aristocratic parents. 
Luke was a carriage maker— a work- 
ing man— a fact which did not please her 
p irents, and because she insisted on mar- 
rying him they disowned her. Though 
it was a mesalliance, Luke mad.' her 
a good home and living, and they were 
happy i igether. Her parents were never 
reconciled. She died in England in the 
L804. Luke Fish. Sr.. cami to Amer- 
ica, where he died in Shelby County. 
Ohio, January 22, 1844, aged 84 years. 
Their children are: — 

1— MARGARET, who was born in 
England, and who died at Dalston. 
near Carlisle, England, aged '■','■ 
years. She was unmarried. 

2— LUKE, JR., born M ly 22, 1787, in 
i "arlisli . England; died October 19, 
1866, in Shelby County, Ohio, aged 
79 years. 

3— WILLIAM, born in England, and 
a tailor by trade. He came to 
America, but sometime afterward 
all trace of him was lost, as he 
. ceased correspondence. It is said 
he was shot in Canada, and it is 
not known whether he left a fam- 
ily or not. 

4— JOHN, who was born in England, 
and who died in England while yet 
-young. 

5— HANNAH, born in England in the 
year IT'jT. and died on January 1, 
1S39, in Shelby County, Ohio,' at 
the age of 12 years. She was un- 
married. 

6— EDWARD, born in England March 
24. 1802; died December 3, 1880, in 
Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, aged 
84 years. 



LUKE FISH, JR. 

Luke Fish, Jr., was the second child of 
Luke, Sr., and Margaret Fish, and was 
born in Carlisle, England, May 22, 17S7. 
He was twice married, and by his first 
wife, Mary Graham, who was born in 
Carlisle, England, April 11, 1T95, and died 
in Shelby County, Ohio, April IS, I<s52, he 
had twelve children. His second mar- 




LUKE FISH, JR. 



riage occurred in February, 1859. Luke 
Fish, Jr., emigrated from England in the 
year' IMS. and settled on a farm near 
Dayton, Ohio, in 1819, remaining in Mont- 
gomery County for nineteen years. Of 
his twelve children, nine were born 
in the log house on the old farm. The 
country at that time was sparsely set- 
tled, and in 1S03 Montgomery County had 
only been incorporated. In 1805, the esti- 
mated population of Cincinnati was but 
960, and transportation was by canal boat 
on the Great Miami River. Thus pioneer 
life in those days was one of privati m 
and weary toil. Luke Fish, Jr., de- 



lighted and excelled in fruit culture, and 
had two orchards and two vineyards on 
his last farm. His eldest son, William, 
in after years, pointed out with pride the 
orchard he himself had planted. In 
1838 he moved to a farm in Shelby 
County, Ohio, four miles from Sidney. 
Weaving jeans on the handloom was 
part of the early settler's life, and fell 
mostly to the mother's lot. and of this 
Mary Fish had her share. She was a 
Christian woman, sweet and patient in 
the effort to make home comfortable. 
She died suddenly .if paralysis, aged '<' 
years, leaving a sister, Jane Nogal, and 
a brother, William Graham, who lived 
near Dayton, but who are now dead. Af- 
ter an illness of only four days, Luke 
Pish, .Jr.. died in Sidney, Shelby County. 
Ohio, en October IT. 1866, aged 7'.' years. 
His remains were followed to the 
I -mli by the largest concourse of 
friends ever witnessed in thai par: 
of ill.- country, be having been one 
of its pioneers. For the last forty- 
five years of his Iifi he had an abiding 
faith, and zealously supported the doc- 
trines of Hi. Methodist church. His house 
wis the home at all times of the itiner- 
ary preachers of that church. In the early 
put of his life lie was inclined to in- 
fidelity, but upon reading "Newton on 
the Prophesies" he was convinced thai 
the Bible was the word of God. About tie 
\,a- 1821 or 1822 he was influenced by 
Michael Marlay and Joseph Park to 
join them in the moral reform in which 
they were so zealously engaged. His 
children are:— 

1— WILLIAM, born November 24. 1X1 1. 
2— MARGARET, born November 11, 

1816. 
3— THOMAS, born December 2, ISIS. 
4— ELIZABETH, born March IS, 1821. 

5— LUKE SIDNEY, born March 31. 

1823. 
R— EDWARD, born August 7, 1825. 
7— MARY JANE, born August 15. 1N27. 
S— JAMES, born August 2S. 1S29. 

9— GEORGE WASHINGTON, born 
February 22. 1S32. 

10— HANNAH, born July 16, 1834. 

11— HENRY, born August 24. 1836. 

12— SARAH, born May 28, 1S38. 



WILLIAM TISH 



William Fish was the first child of 
Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was born 
in Carlisle, England, on November 24, 
1814. He was in his fifth year when he 
came to America with his parents, who 
settled on a farm near Dayton, Ohio, in 
1819. Early put to work, his only educa- 
tion was obtained by reading by the light 
of the fire in the> chimney corner such 
books as he could obtain. He worked on 




WILLIAM FISH 



the farm, and learned to weave on the 
handloom at home, making clothing for 
the family, until he was twenty years of 
age. Leaving the farm about 1835, with 
only a suit of jeans and little money, he 
went to Dayton, Ohio, to enter upon 
life's struggles, where he found work in 
a. woolen mill. Wool was exchanged for 
yarns, jeans and flannels. He remained in 
Dayton until 1839, when he moved to his 
father's farm in Shelby County, Ohio. 
Revived work in the mills induced Wil- 



liam to go to Dayton again in 1841, re- 
maining there till 1847. when he went to 
Springfield, Ohio, working in a woolen 
mill eleven hours a day. Times were 
hard on account of the panic. Seventy- 
five cents a day was called good pay then, 
and money could not be had. Then fol- 
lowed the cholera scourge, William being 
stricken, but lived to bless the name 
of Mary Buvinger, who took his family 
to her home in Dayton, providing for 
them through 1 1 1 ■ ■ Winter. William's 




CATHARINE FISH (nee BUVINGER) 



knowledge of the loom and woolen busi- 
ness, and his integrity, obtained for him 
the confidence of Christopher Slagle, of 
London, Ohio, who put him in charge 
of a mill he had erected. Thence he 
moved in the Spring of 1S50 and began his 
career as a business man. Being success- 
ful, and desiring to branch out, he re- 
turned to Springfield in the Spring of 
1854. Renting a place, with machinery, 
from Charles Rabbits, he, with the assis- 
tance of his older children, began working 



stocking yarn the first year, running day 
and night. In 1855 he entered into part- 
nership with Mr. Rabbits, under the firm 
name of "Rabbits & Fish," but dissolved 
it to branch out further, and in February, 
1859, moved to Dayton again, taking with 
him his own machinery. The sign: "Wil- 
liam Fish, Dayton 'Woolen Mill"— was 
known far and wide. He continued 
the business up to the time of his death, 
which occurred on January 15, 1867, in 
Cleveland, Ohio, where he had gone for 
treatment for paralysis. He was buried 
in the Fish lot in Woodland Cemetery, 
Dayton, Ohio. He was a good Christian, 
temperate in all things, and generously 
gave to the church, the poor, and to the 
many calls made upon him during the 
Civil War of 1861 to 1865. He was a 
staunch Republican and an Anti-Slavery 
man, and often assisted runaway slaves 
to escape by the "underground railroad." 
William was married in Dayton, Ohio, on 
October 17, 1837, to Catharine Buvinger, 
who was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania 
on July 18, ISIS. She was about seventeen 
years of age when she moved to Ohio 
with her parents, traveling by canal boat 
and stage, the only means of transporta- 
tion at that time. She endured bravely 
the ups and downs of her married life, 
always hopeful, and withal a good Chris- 
tian wife and mother. At the death of 
her husband she continued his business, 
with the aid of two eons-in-law, until 
1S72, when she closed it out and went to 
Cli veland, Ohio, April 7, 1S73, with her 
four youngest children. She died in the 
full faith of a Christian hope on Jan- 
uary 5, 1890, in Cleveland, Ohio, and was 
buried in the Fish lot in Woodland Cem- 
etery, Dayton, Ohio. Their children arc: 

1— MARY, born July 9, 1838. 

2— LOUISE JANE, born July 10, 1S40. 

3— HENRIETTA MATILDA, born 
February 6, 1S42. 

4-LUTHER STOCKTON, born De- 
cember 3, 1843. 

5— AMANDA, born May 22, 1S46. 

6— ORANGE SCOTT, born Jan. 2, 1848. 



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7— SARAH ELIZABETH, born Jan- 
uary 31. 1850. 

8— MARTHA WASHINGTON, born 
January 24, 1852. 

9— OLLIE BELLE, born Aug. 12. 1854. 
10— JESSIE LEOTA, born Oct. 18, 1856. 
11— ALMON BARNES, born May 17, 
1859. 



MA BY FISH was the first child of 
William and Catharine Fish, and was 
born in Dayton. Ohio, on July 9, L838. 
She was married at Springfield, Ohio, on 
December 13, 1S57, to Benjamin KautT- 
man, a woolen manufacturer, who \v;is 
born in Springfield, Ohio, on October is, 
1834. Their children are:— 

1— ANNA VIRGINIA, bom in Spring- 
field, Ohio, October 10, 1858; died in 
Columbus, Ohio. January 5, 1892. 

2-HARRY WILLIAM, born in Alpha. 

Ohio. August 13, 1865; died there 

April 3, 1867. 
3— BENJAMIN FREDERICK, born in 

Alpha, Ohio. February 27. 1867. 
4— MARY LOUISE, bom in Alpha. 

Ohio. January 26, 1869. 
5— OWEN ALBERT, born in St. 

Mary's. Ohio, September 9, 1873. 
6— JESSIE MATTIE BELLE, born in 

St. Mary's, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1876. 

BENJAMIN FREDERICK KAUFF- 
MAN was the third child of Mary Fish 
and Benjamin Kauffman, and was horn 
in Alpha, Ohio, February 27, 1867. He 
was cashier for seventeen years of the 
James Leffel Water Wheel Company, of 
Springfield, Ohio. He was married at 
Cleveland, Ohio, April 30. 1901, to Fanny 
Maude Mattison, who was born August 
s. 1866, in South Shaftsbury, Vermont. 
Their only child is:— 

1— FREDERICK MATTISON, born in 
Springfield, Ohio, June IS, 1902. 

MARY LOUISE KAUFFMAN was the 
fourth child of Mary Fish and Benjamin 
Kauffman. and was born in Alpha, Ohio, 
January 26, 1869. She was unmarried. 

OWEN ALBERT KAUFFMAN was the 
fifth child of Mary Fish and Benja- 



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min Kauffman, and was born in St. 
Mary's, Ohio, on September 9, 1873. He 
was the general superintendent of the 
James, Eeffel Water Wheel Company, of 
Springfield, Ohio. He was unmarried. 

JESSIE M. B. KAUFFMAN was the 
sixth child of Mary Fish and Benja- 
min Kauffman, and was born in St. 
Mary's, Ohio, on September 4, 1876. She 
was engaged in gymnastic work as Phy- 
sical Director, She was unmarried. 



LOUISE JANE FISH was the second 
child of William and Catharine Fish, and 
was born near Sidney, Shelby County. 




LOUISE JANE FISH 



Ohio, on July 10, 1840. She was married 
at Meadville, Pennsylvania, Elder 
O. T. Ongley performing the ceremony on 
October 16, 1859, to George Klock Nellis, 
who was born near Clockville, Madison 
County, New York, on January 24, 1826, 
and died in Chicago, Illinois, on May 8, 
1902. He was a photographer and was in 



business in Chicago for several years. 
Their only child is: — 

1— MINNIE, born March 25. 1861. 



MINNIE NELLIS was the only child 
of Louise Jane Fish and George Klock 
Nellis, and was born in Dayton, Ohio, on 
March 25. 1 S*»l . She was married in 
Chicago, Illinois, on May 24. 1883, to Dr. 
Albert Ellsworth Froom, who was born 
in Belvidere, 111., on Nov. 2". 1861. He 
was a self-made man. Engaged in the 
Chicago Post Office, lie earned his way 
through college, and has been very suc- 
cessful as a physician. Their children 
: — 

1— ALBERT NELLIS, born in Chi- 
cago, Illinois, April 16, 1884. 

2— MARG1 ER] fi: LOUISE, born in 
Chicago, Illinois, Nov. 22. 1885. 

3— HELEN GENEVIEVE, hum in 
Chicago, Illinois, May 7. 1888. 

4— MAT KATHERINE, born in CI 
go, Illinois, November 22. 1889. 

5— EDGAR ALBRIGHT, born in Chi- 
cago. Illinois. July 1;. 1892. 



HENRIETTA MATILDA FISH was the 
third chil 1 of William and Catharine Fish, 
and was born in Dayton, Ohio, February 
6, 1842. She was married in Dayton, Ohio, 
on October 29, 1863, to Chai Henry 1 b 
who was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, April 
2.:. 1S38. He was a bookkeeper in Dayton 
for several years tnd then moved to 
Ashtabula. Ohio, where he died on a farm 
May 7. 1887. Henrietta Matilda married 
a second time, in Cleveland. Ohio, on 
Feb. 8, 1893, to Amory Warren Woodbury, 
who was born in Leominster, Massa- 
chusetts, on April 24. 1827. He was a re- 
tired property holder, and died in Spring- 
field, Ohio, on November 3. 1899. Henriet- 
ta Matilda's only child, by her first hus- 
band, was:— 

1-ROLLA FOREST, born May 17, 1866. 

ROLLA FOREST COOK was the only 
child of Henrietta Matilda Fish and 
Charles Henry Cook, and was born in 
Davton, Ohio. May 17. 1866. He was a car- 
penter contractor and builder, and was 



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married in Ashtabula, Ohio on Septem- 
ber IS, 1893, to Amoret Munsell, who was 
born in Ashtabula, Ohio, on June 18, 1864. 
Their only child is:— 

1— RUTH LEOTA, born June 1, 1895, 
in Cleveland, Ohio. 

LUTHER STOCKTON FISH was the 
fourth child of William and Catharine 
Pish, and was born December 3, 1843, in 
Dayton, Ohio. He received a common 
school education, working in his father's 
woolen mill during his vacation months. 
He served two years in the Union Army, 
War of the Rebellion, in the First Ohio 
Volunteer Heavy Artillery, enlisting July 
22, 1863. for three years or during the war. 
His regiment was marched overland from 
Covington, Kentucky, to Knoxville, Ten- 
nessee, during the Winter of 1863-4. re- 
lieving General Burnside's forces imme- 
diately after the raising of the Confed- 
erate siege of that place. The regiment 
was assigned guard duty there, in the 
forts, during the greater part of its time 
of service. In the Fall of 1864 his com- 
pany was detailed as guard on a con- 
struction train to repair the railroad be- 
tween Loudonville and Chattanooga, de- 
stroyed by the Confederate General 
Wheeler. He received an honorable dis- 
charge at Nashville. Tennessee, July 13, 
1865, by reason of the close of the war. 
Returning home, he engaged with his 
father in business. Luther Stockton Fish 
was married on November 22, 1866, to 
Agnes Marietta Sherwood, who was born 
August 1. 1840, in Dayton, Ohio. He 
moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1868, and 
engaged in the fire insurance business. 
There was no issue, but they adopted an 
18-months-old child, William Earl Fish, 
born December 5, 1878, in Cleveland, Ohio, 
and died November 18, 1901. in Phoenix, 
Arizona, and was buried in Woodland 
Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. He was un- 
married. 



AMANDA FISH was the fifth child of 
William and Catharine Pish, and was 
born in Dayton, Ohio, May 22, 1846. She 
was married in Dayton, June 30, 1867. to 
William Edward Tanner, who was born 
in Springfield, Ohio, June 7, 1844. Amanda 
died in Dayton, Ohio, February 25, 1885. 
Their only child is: — 

1— EDWARD LEON, born in Dayton, 
Ohio, November 4, 1874. 



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ORANGE SCOTT PISH was the sixth 
child of William and Catharine Pish, and 
was born in Springfield, Ohio, on January 
2. 1848. He died in Springfield, Ohio, on 
April 15, 1849. 



SARAH ELIZABETH FISH was the 
seventh child of William and Catharine 
Fish, and was born January 31, 1850, in 
Springfield, Ohio. She was married in 
Dayton, Ohio, on May 13, 1869, to Homer 
Anson Cook, who was born November tl, 
1845, in Saybrook, Ohio. He was engaged 
in business as a contracting carpenter, 
Sarah Elizabeth died January 1, 1902, in 

Dayton, Ohio, and was buried in W I- 

land Cemetery. Their children are:— 

1— KITTIE PALMER, born April 4, 

1870. 
2— MARY ELIZABETH, born Decem- 
ber 2. 1871. 
3— WILLIAM HARRY, born January 

4. 1874. 
4— FLANK ALViX. burn November 

17. 1875, in Dayton, Ohio, and died 

there May 15, 1892 
5— CHARLES BURROUGHS, 

May 13, 1879. 
6— LUTHER GLENN, born March 27, 

1881. in Dayton. Ohio. 

KITTIE PALMER COOK was the first 
child of Sarah Elizabeth Fish and Homer 

Anson Cook, and was born April 4. 1870. 
in Dayton, Ohio. She was married on 
September 25, 1889. in Dayton, Ohio, to 
Elmer Ellsworth Maltby, a contracting 
painter, who was born August 25, 1862, in 
Dayton, Ohio. Their children are:— 

1— EARL BUTTLES, born July 15. 
1890. in Dayton, Ohio. 

2— HOMER ANSON, born January 29, 
1892, in Dayton. Ohio. 

3— JESSIE ELIZABETH, born Febru- 
ary 27, 1897, in Dayton, Ohio 

4— CLYDE ELLSWORTH, born Au- 
gust 30, 1898, in Dayton, Ohio. 

MARY ELIZABETH COCK was the 
second child of Sarah Elizabeth Fish 
and Homer Anson Cook, and was born 
December 2, 1871, in Dayton, Ohio. She 
was married on March 23, 1902, in Dayton, 
Ohio, to Frank Edgar Greenwood, who 
was born December 16, 1869, in Indian- 
apolis, Indiana. 

WILLIAM HARRY COOK was the 
third child of Sarah Elizabeth Fish and 



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Homer Anson Cook, and was born Janu- 
ary 4, 1874, in Dayton, Ohio. He was 
married on February 25. 1903, in Dayton, 
Ohio, to Anna Lapp, who was born Octo- 
ber 30, 1876, in Dayton. Ohio. William 
Harry was engaged with the Gem City 
Mortgage & Loan Company, of Dayton, 
Ohio. 

CHARLES BURROUGHS COOK was 
the fifth child of Sarah Elizabeth Fish 
and Homer Anson Cook, and was born 
on May 13, 1879, in Dayton, Ohio. He 
was married on December 17, 1903, in 
Dayton, Ohio, to Susan May Brown, who 
was born May 23, 1881, in Johnsville, 
Ohio. Charles Burroughs was engaged as 
an assistant superintendent at Monroe, 
Michigan. 



MARTHA WASHINGTON FISH was 
the eighth child of William and Cath- 
arine Fish, and was born in London, 
Ohio, January 24, 1852. She was married 
on September 5, 1876, to Edgar Shawke 
Kidder, who was born in Racine, Wis- 
consin, on August 25, 1855. He was cashier 
and credit man of the Eastern Division 
of the Sherwin-Williams Co. Martha 
Washington Fish died in Bloomfield, 
New Jersey, on March 3, 1903, and was 
buried in Bloomfield Cemetery. Their 
children are:— 

1— FANNY HUBBARD, born in Cleve- 
land, Ohio, October 16, 1878; died 
there May 3, 1883. 

2— RUTH MARY E., born in Cleve- 
land, Ohio, April 13, 1883. 

3— CAROLINE EDGARDA, born in 
Cleveland. Ohio, March 3, 1885. 

4— DOROTHY ELIZABETH, born in 
East Orange, N. J., May 28, 1887. 

5— ALMON NOEL, born in East Or- 
ange, New Jersey, Dec. 25, 1889. 



OLLIE BELLE FISH was the ninth 
child of William and Catharine Fish, 
and was born in Springfield, Ohio, on Au- 
gust 12, 1854. She was a Christian woman, 
delighting in charitable work, and died 
in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 3, 1897. 
She was unmarried. 



JESSIE LEOTA FISH was the tenth 
child of William and Catharine Fish, and 
was born in Springfield, Ohio, on Octo- 
ber 18, 1856. She was unmarried. 



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ALMON BARNES FISH was the 
eleventh and last child of William and 
Catharine Fish, and was born in Dayton, 
Ohio. Maj 17. L859. He moved to Cleveland. 
Ohio, on April 7. 1873, where for the 
past twelve years he was employed as 
manager of an old established paint 
house. He was married Jan. 29. 1S95, in 
Bloomfield. N< w Jersey, to Harriette Pol- 
hemus Sutphen, who was born Nov. 18, 
1871, in New I'treeht, L. I., New York. 
Her father was the Rev. David Schure- 
raan Sutphen, for twelve years pastor of 
the Reformed Dutch Church at New 
Utrecht. He was burn April 24. 1842, in 
Pluckemin, New Jersey, and died March 
27, 1897, in Bio imfield, V' w J< rsey, where 
he was buried. He was tie d son 

of William .1. Sutphen and Elizabeth 
Los y. William J. Sutphen was lien. 
June 21. 1809, in Larger Cross Roads, 
Somerset County, New Jersey, and died 
.Ma\ 21. 1846, in Pluckemin, New Jersey, 
and was buried al Bedminster, New 
Jersey. E'izabeth Losey was born in 
1814 in Pluckemin, New Jersey, and died 
in Newark. New Jersey. November 18, 
1873. and was buried in Bedminster, New 
.l,r y. Ha rii I ;■ Polhemus Sutphen's 
mother, Harriette Robertson Polhemus, 
was the third child of Rev. Abraham 
1'. lb mus and Eliza Broadhead II 
and was born Decembi r 18, 1842, in 
Hopewell, New York. The Rev. Abra- 
ham Polhemus. D. I>., was hern April 30, 
1812, in Hallett's Cove (now Astoria), New 
York, and died October 28, 1857, in New- 
burgh, New Ynrk, and was buried in 
Newark, New Jersey, where he was pas- 
tor of the North Dutch (Reformed) 
Church. He was married in New York 
city October 7, 1835, to Eliza Broadhead 
Heyer, who was born July \ 1815, in New 
Y'ork city, and died April 29, 1901, in New- 
ark, New Jersey, where she was buried. 
The children of Almon Barnes Fish are:— 

1— ALMON SUTPHEN, born January 
21. 189fi. in Cleveland, Ohio. 

2— CATHARINE LOUISE, born April 
20, 1898. in Cleveland, Ohio. 

3— DAVID SUTPHEN. born February 
S. 1901, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

LEONARD AND .MARY BCYIXGER. 

Leonard Buvinger, Jr., was the son of 
Leonard, Si\. and Mary Buvinger, and 
was born in Strausburg, Franklin Coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania, on October 25, 1792. 



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Leonard Buvinger, Sr., died July 21, 1794, 
and was buried in Green Castle, Franklin 
County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary 
Bueher. Leonard Buvinger, Jr., settled 
in Dayton in 1835, and built the first brick 
house on what was called the "Buck 
lot." He was a shoemaker by trade, his 
shop being on the house lot. He served 
in the war of 1812. He was married on 
December 14, 1817, to Mary Snyder, who 
was born in Hanover, York County, 
Pennsylvania, July 1, 1800, and died in 
Dayton, Ohio, February 19, 1868. "Uncle 
Leonard" and "Aunt Polly," as they were 
called, were universally loved, not only 
by their children and grandchildren, but 
by all who knew them. They were good 
staunch Methodists, and their doors were 
always open to the needy. They had 
eleven children, and four sons served in 
the Civil War of 1861 to 1865, all surviving 
the conflict. Leonard, Jr., died in Day- 
ton. Ohio, February 16, 1870, and was 
buried in Woodland Cemetery. Mary 
Buvinger's name is a familiar one in the 
annals of early Methodism in Dayton, 
she being one of the original members 
of Raper Chapel. Her e.arly education 
was in another branch of the Christian 
church, but in 1827, notwithstanding bit- 
ter opposition from her friends, she re- 
solved to unite with the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. She was a member of the 
first class meeting organized in Hanover. 
Pennsylvania, and passed through many 
trying scenes of persecution, as in that 
day did most of those who joined Meth- 
odism in that region of the country. 
Being the only family of German descent 
among the Methodists of Dayton at that 
time, their house was the home of the 
first German missionaries, as well as of 
the English ministers. Mary Buvinger 
was a faithful member of the pastor's 
class. Her last illness was protracted 
and her sufferings great, but she was 
always calm and peaceful, and died Feb- 
ruary 19, 1868, in her sixty-eighth year. 
She was buried in Woodland Cemetery, 
Dayton, Ohio. Mary Buvinger was the 
daughter of Jacob and Catharine Snyder. 
Jacob Snyder was born in Somerset 
County, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1777, 
and died in Dayton, Ohio. July 11, 1854. 
He married on August 7, 1796, in Hanover, 
York County, Pennsylvania, Catharine 
Reisinger, who was born at Hanover, 
February 14, 1777, and died in Dayton, 
Ohio, July 30, 1840. 



MARGARET FISH 

Margaret Fish, who was the second 
rhild of Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, was 
born in Carlisle, England, November 11, 
1816, and died at Sumner, Illinois, June 
16 L885. She was married in 1838 to John 
Foster, who was born February 17, 1810, 
and who died February 21, 1890, in Sum- 
ner, Illinois. He was a carpenter by trade, 




MAKOAKKT FISH 



but afterward a contractor and builder, 
in Dayton, Ohio. In 1838 he moved to Sum- 
ner, Illinois, where he purchased a stock 
farm. In 1S62 Margaret secured a sep- 
aration from John Foster, being allowed 
alimony. She lived in Dayton for sev- 
eral years, with her brother William, 
and then went to Brazil, Indiana, win re 
she lived with her son, Orin Osco. 
John Foster married again, his sec- 
ond wife dying from injuries received 
by being thrown from a buggy. A 
few years afterward he married again, 
his third wife being Jennie Elkins, who 
was born September 24, 1849, in White 
County, Illinois. They had one child by 
the union, Martha Jane, who was born 
June 14, 1878, in Lawrence County, 



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Illinois. The children of Margaret and 
John Foster are:— 

1— MARY JANE, born November 8, 
1838. 

2— WILLIAM THOMAS, born Septem- 
ber 12, 1840, in Dayton, Ohio, and 
died there October 2, 1841. 

3— HENRY, still-born, January 3, 1842, 
in Dayton, Obio. 

4— GEORGE, born May 26, 1843, in Day- 
ton, Ohio, and died there July 15, 
1843. 

5— ERASTUS, born January 3, 1845, in 
Dayton, Ohio, and died there Oc- 
tober 12, 1850. 

6— JOHN FRANCISCO, bom February 
26, 1849. 

7— ORIN OSCO, born November 16, 
1851. 

MARY JANE FOSTER was the first 
child of Margaret Fish and John Foster, 
and was born in Dayton, Ohio, No- 
vember S, 1S3S. She was married on Sep- 
tember 29, 1857, in Dayton, Ohio, to Rufus 
E. Motter, who was born January 30, 
1831, in Richland County (since divided 
into two counties, he being born in the 
portion now called Ash!and County), 
near Ashland, Ohio. He was engaged 
in business as a miller. They lived in 
Dayton, Ohio, until 1861, when they mov- 
ed to Brazil, Indiana, where Mary Jane 
died on January S, 1875. Rufus E. Motter 
died June 2, 1893. Their children are:— 

1— IDA CORA, born September 23, 1S5S. 
2— JOHN EDMOND, born March 8, 
1861. 

IDA CORA MOTTER was the first 
child of Mary Jane Foster and Rufus 
E. Motter, and was born in Dayton, 
Ohio, September 23, 1S5S. She was mar- 
ried on June 11, 1S74, to Davis M. War- 
ner, who was born November 13, 1848, 
and who died December 3, 1881. Ida Cora 
died in Brazil, Indiana, on January 20, 
1876. Their only child is:— 

1— AMANDA JANE, born and died 
March 12, 1875. 

JOHN EDMOND MOTTER was the 
second child of Mary Jane Foster and 
Rufus E. Motter, and was born March 
S, 1861, in Dayton, Ohio. He was married 
on March 29, 1893, to Ida Caroline Loy. 
There was no issue. 



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JOHN FRANCISCO FOSTER was the 
sixth child of Margaret Fish and John 
Foster, and was born February 26, 1849, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and his brother, 
Orin Osco, gave up business in Rockville, 
Indiana, to return to the farm in Sum- 
ner, Illinois, given them by their father, 
John Foster. In 18S7 John Francisco 
went to Chicago, Illinois, as a bookkeeper, 
and then to Columbus, Ohio, where he 
died, May L9, 1891. He was buried at Sum- 
ni r, Illinois. He was unmarried. 



ORIX OSCO FOSTER was the seventh 
child of Margarel Fish and John F" 
and was bum November 16, 1851, in Day- 
ton, Ohio. He was married on Decembei 
3 1896, to Jennie Elkins, who was born 
September 24, 1849, in White County, Illi- 
nois. Orin Osco lived on a farm in Law- 
rence County, Illinois, with the exception 
of a few years in Dayton, Ohio, until 19 
years of age, when he went to Brazil, 
Indiana, to Learn blacksmith ing. He 
worked there two years, then went to 
Rockville, Indiana, and in the Fall of 
L875 started a carria i> there. His 
brother, Jolin Francisco, was a part- 
ner with him for tw ' three > 

when they sold out ,'iml wenl to farming 
in Illinois. Orin Osco stayed there a year, 
then went to Wiehita, Kansas, running a 
carriage repair shop until issit. On the 
opening of Oklahoma, April 22, 1889, he 
went there ami secured 160 acres. There 
was no issue. 



MARTHA JANE FOSTER was the only 
child and daughter of John and Jennie 
Foster, and was born in Lawrence Coun- 
ty Illinois, on June 11, 1878. She was mar- 
ried at Sumner, Illinois, on March 18, 
1896, to Charles Congleton Webb, who 
was born in Lawrence County. Illinois, 
on .\l trch 1, 1876. Their children are. — 
1— JENNIE PEARL, born at Sumner, 

Illinois, on October 2, 1897. 
2— WILLIAM CLIFFORD, born at 
Sumner, Illinois, December 3, 1899. 



THOMAS FISH 

Thomas Fish was the third child of 
Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was their 
last child born in Carlisle, England, his 
birth occurring on December 2, ISIS. He 
died in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. 
November 30, 1839, aged 21 years. He 
was unmarried. 



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ELIZABETH FISH 

Elizabeth Fish was the fourth child of 
Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was born 
near Dayton, Ohio, on March 18, 1821, be- 
ing their first born in America. She 
died in Orange Township, Shelby County, 
Ohio, on December 30, 1891. She was mar- 
ried in 1841 to Hiram Bull, who was born 
near Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio, on 




ELIZABETH FISH 



March 7, 1818. When four years of age 
his father died, leaving him with his 
mother, with whom he remained on the 
home farm until he reached his majority. 
In 1839, after becoming of age, he went 
to > Shelby County to look after the land 
fti's father had entered in 1810, and began 
improving it, building himself a log cabin 
in the woods for a home. Hiram and 
Elizabeth were both members of the 
Methodist Protestant Church and wor- 
shiped under great dimculity at thar. 
time, having to travel to church on horse- 
back. Often could they both be seen rid- 
ing their horse, old Nell, with a sheep- 
skin for a saddle and flax spun rope for 



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a rein. Hiram was a resident of Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, for six- 
ty years and owned a farm of 240 acres. 
He died there on June 8, 1899. Their chil- 
dren are: — 

1— NATHAN STIPP. born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
April 12, 1843. 

2— FRANCIS MARION, born October 
10, 1845. 

3— MARY CATHARINE, born Janu- 
ary 17, 1847. 

4— ERMINA TOWNLEY, born Octo- 
ber 7. Ms. 

5— JOANNA MORRIS, born Novem- 
ber :i. 1850. 

6— JAMES MADISON, born in 

Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
Novi mb< r is. is:,:;; died there Sep- 
tember 14, 1854, 

7— WILLIAM ORANGE, born in Or- 
ange Township. Shelby County, 

ohio, June 11. L857. 



FRANCIS MARION BULL was the 

second child of Elizabeth Fish and Hi- 
ram Bull, and was born in Orange Town- 
ship, Shelby County, Ohio, on Octobi 
1845. He was engaged as a farmer. He 
served in the Civil War. having enlisted 
on February 16, 1864, in Company E, 71st. 
O. V. I., for three years, or during the re- 
mainder of the war. He underwent many 
hardships, was at the siege of Atlanta, 
Georgia, and many others, when shot 
and shell fell like hail. After the war 
was declared over he was sent to the 
Gulf of Mexico and to Texas, being dis- 
charged in 1865. He was a charter mem- 
ber of Plattsville Lodge and Kirkwood 
Lodge of Odd Fellows, and a membi i oi 
Neal Post, G. A. R. He was married on 
November 8, 1866, to Mary Ena Belle Ap- 
plegate, who was born in Green Town- 
ship, Shelby County, Ohio, on December 
12, 1845. Francis Marion Bull died in 
Orange Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
on February 17, 1904. Their children are: 

1— JESSE HIRAM, born October 7, 
1867. 

2-CHARLES CLAYTON, born No- 
vember 12. 1868. 



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3— NETTIE GRACE, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
December 6, 1870; died there Au- 
gust 25, 1872. 

4— OLLIE ENA, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
August 25, 1872; died there April 
26, 1875. 

5— HATTIE LAVENA, born April 2, 
1874. 

6— BERTIE EDWARD, born in Or- 
ange Township, Shelby County, 
Ohio, April 3, 1876. 

7— MARION LEE, born November 2, 
1877. 

8--MELLIE ELIZABETH, born No- 
vember 16, 1879. 

9— EMERSON OSCAR, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
August 9, 1881; died there Septem- 
ber 24, 1882. 

10— FREDERICK KNOX, born in Or- 
ange Township, Shelby County, 
Ohio, February 4, 1883; died there 
March 4, 1883. 

11— CLIFFORD ARNOLD, born in Or- 
ange Township. Shelby County, 
Ohio, April 26, 1884. 

12— CARRIE MAY, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
April 10, 1887. 



JESSE HIRAM BULL was the first 
child of Francis Marion and Mary Ena 
Belle Bull, and was born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on Octo- 
ber 7, 1867. He was employed as an en- 
gineer in the roller plate mills at Youngs- 
town, Ohio He was married on October 
18. 1888. to Mary Alice Carey, who was 
born in Careysville, Ohio, on April 16, 
1865. Their children are:— 

1— OLA, born in Clinton Township. 
Shelby County, Ohio, August 25, 
1889. 

2— FAT MORLAND, born in Mead- 
ville, Pennsylvania, December 23, 
1893. 

3— LADONA, born in Clinton Town- 
ship, Shelby County, Ohio, Feb- 
ruary 8, 1897. 



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CHARLES CLAYTON BULL was the 
second child of Francis Marion and Mary 
Ena Belle Bull, and was born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on No- 
vember 12, 1868. He was a carpenter and 
contractor. He was married on Decem- 
ber 12, 1889, to Ho Eldora Carey, who 
was born in Careysville, Ohio, July 30, 
1870, and was a sister of Mary Alice Ca- 
rey, who married Jesse Hiram Bull, a 
brother of Charles Clayton Bull. Their 
children are:— 

1— OSCO EDWARD, born in Clinton 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio. 
January 4. 1891. 

2-RUBY CARET, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
August 29, 1897. 



HATTIE LAVKXA BULL, was the fifth 
child of Francis Marion and Mary Ena 
Belle Bull, and was born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on April 
2, 1874. She was married on August 24, 
1901, to George Mentges, who was born 
in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. March 24, 
1866, and was in business as an under- 
taker. He was also the inventor of a 
newspaper folder, the demand for which 
compelled him to run his works day and 
night. There was no issue. 



MARION LEE BULL was the seventh 
child of Francis Marion and Mary Ena 
Belle Bull, and was born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on No- 
vember 2. 1877. He was a machinist by 
occupation and was employed by his 
brother-in-law, George Mentges. Marion 
Lee Bull enlisted and served in the Span- 
ish-American War. He was enrolled June 
20. 1898, in Company L, Third Regiment 
of Ohio Volunteers, for three years, or 
during the war, and on his discharge 
papers are the words "honest and faith- 
ful." He was mustered out October 26, 
1S98, and was married on February 14, 
1899, to Sarah Elizabeth Danford, who 
was born in Cynthian Township, Shelby 
County, Ohio, on June 11, 1882. Their 
children are: — 

1— DADORA MARIE, born October 27, 
1899. in Clinton Township, Shelby 
County, Ohio. 



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2— CLEORA MARGARET, born March 
12, 1901, in Clinton Township, Shel- 
by County, Ohio. 

MELLIE ELIZABETH BULL was the 
eighth child of Francis Marion and Mary 
Ena Belle Bull, and was born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on No- 
vember 16, 1879. She was married on No- 
vember 7, 1899, to Henry Michle Roth, a 
farmer, who was born at Fryburg, Au- 
glaize County, Ohio, on May 16, 1874. 
Their children are: — 

1— JOHN FRANCIS, born in Clinton 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
August 20, 1900. 

2— HAROLD JOSEPH, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
January 26, 1902. 



MARY CATHARINE BULL was the 
third child of Elizabeth Fish and Hi- 
ram Bull, and was born in Orange Town- 
ship, Shelby County, Ohio, on January 
17, 1S47. She was married on July 4, 1866, 
•fro John Dillon, of Miami County, Ohio, 
and in the year 1868 they mutually 
agreed to separate. Mary Catharine died 
in Shelby County, Ohio, on March 13, 
1875. Their only child is:— 

1— BENJAMIN ERASTUS, born June 
19, 1867. 



BENJAMIN ERASTUS DILLON was 
the only child of Mary Catharine Bull 
and John Dillon, and was born in Or- 
ange Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on 
June 19, 1867. He was married by the 
Rev. Mr. Hale on June 7, 1903, to Dellie 
Maud Wikoff, who was born in Liberty 
Township, Adams County, Ohio, on De- 
cember 11, 1873. She was the daughter 
of James and Mary E. Wikoff. Among 
his Grandfather Bull's records 'the fol- 
lowing entry was found: "Benjamin 
Erastus Dillon. Application by Hiram 
Bull, to Probate Court, to have name 
changed to Benjamin Erastus Bull." This 
was granted, but in 1900 Benjamin Eras- 
tus had it changed back to Dillon by an 
application to the Probate Court of 
Shelby County, Ohio. Although he re- 
ceived eighty acres of home farm from 
his Grandfather Bull, he followed the 
occupation of a carpenter. 



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ERMINA TOWNLEY BULL was the 
fourth child of Elizabeth Fish and Hiram 
Bull, and was born in Orange Town- 
ship, Shelby County, Ohio, on October 
7, 1848. She was married on April 7, 
1870, to Joseph Franklin Applegate, a 
brother of Mary Ena Belle Applegate, 
who married Francis Marion Bull, a 
brother of Ermina Townley Bull. Jo- 
seph Franklin Applegate was born in 
Green Township, Shelby County. Ohio, 
on February 25, 1849. He was a farmer. 
Their children are:— 

1— ROLEY CLIFFORD, born in Shel- 
by County, Ohio. April 11. 1871; 
died in Green Township, Shelby 
County, Ohio, on March 1, 1875. 

2-ERASTUS FLEETWOOD, born 
September 8, 1ST.' 

3— FORKS'!" EDNEY, born March 28, 
1874. 

4-EDWARD JUDSON, born January 
3, 1S77. 

5— CHARLES CLIDE, born in (Maim.' 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
July 26, 1879. 

ERASTUS FLEETWOOD APPLEGATE 
was tlic second child of Ermina Townley 
Bull and Joseph Franklin Applegate, and 
was born in Shelby County, Ohio, on 
Septi mber 8, 1872. He was married in -Mi- 
ami County, Ohio, on December 12. 1899, 
in Daisy Amies Cooper, who was born in 
Orange Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
on January 24, 1882. Their children are:— 

1— DON B, born in Orange Township, 
Shelby County. < ►hio, March 26, 
19m i 

2— EARL JUDSON, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
September 5, 1901; died in Green 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 

September 25, 1902. 



FOREST EDNEY APPLEGATE was 
the third child of Ermina Townley Bull 
and Joseph Franklin Applegate, and was 
burn in Green Township, Shelby County. 
Ohio, on March 28, 1874. He was married 
on April 14, 1S97, to Emma Elizabeth 
Darst, who was born in Salem Township, 



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Shelby County, Ohio, on April 10, 1873. 
Their children are:— 

1— ROBERT AUGUSTUS, born in Per- 
ry Township, Shelby County, Oftio, 
October 18, 1897. 

2— HELEN MARGUERITE, born in 
Green Township, Shelby County, 
Ohio, February 23, 1900. 

3-LULAH PEARL, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
January 4, 1903. 

EDWARD JUDSON APPLEGATE was 
the fourth child of Ermina Townley Bull 
and Joseph Franklin Applegate, and was 
born in Shelby County, Ohio, on January 
3, 1877. He served his country in the 
Philippines, was sick in Manila three 
months, laid in California ninety-nine 
days, and lingered about a month at 
home, where he died May 11, 1901, aged 24 
years. 



JOANNA MORRIS BULL was the 
fifth child of Elizabeth Fish and Hiram 
Bull, and was born in Orange Township. 
Shelby County, Ohio, on November 3, 
1850. She was married on November 9, 
1871, to John Findley Meighan, who was 
born in Monroe Township, Warren 
County, Ohio, on November 6, 1849. Their 
children are:— 

1— MINNIE BELL, born November 2. 
1872. 

2— WILLIAM FRANKLIN, born Sep- 
tember 4, 1876. 

3— EDNA MAE, born May 17, 1SS6. 

MINNIE BELL MEIGHAN was the 
first child of Joanna Morris Bull and 
John Findley Meighan, and was born in 
Orange Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
on November 2, 1872. She was married on 
November 6, 1890, to Denton James Simes, 
who was born in Orange Township, Shel- 
by County, Ohio, on December 24, 1866. 
Their children are: — 

1— JOHN WILLIAM, born in Sidney, 
Shelby County, Ohio, October 9, 
1891. 

2— BERTHA MAY, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
November 10, 1893. 



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3— GEORGE LANTY, born in Orange 
Township. Shelby County, Ohio, 
April 2, 1897. 

WILLIAM FRANKLIN MEIGHAN 
was the second child of Joanna Morris 
Bull and John Findley Meighan, and was 
born in Green Township, Shelby County, 
Ohio, on September 1. 1876. He was mar- 
ried in 1897 to Bertha Mabel Gilbert, who 
was born in Brown Township, Miami 
County, Ohio, on August 6, 1875. Their 
only child is: — 

1— HELEN GERTRUDE, born in 
Orange Township, Shelby County, 
Ohio, February 24, 1899, and died 
tin re February 18, 1900. 

EDNA MAE MEIGHAN was the third 
child of Joanna Morris Bull and John 
Findley Meighan, and was born in Spring- 
Creek Township. .Miami County, ' 
May 17. 1886. She was educated in the 
Hi:-:li School at Piqua, and was an ac- 
complished musician She was unmar- 



LUKE SIDNEY FISH 

Luke Sidney Fish was the fifth child 
of Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was 
born near Dayton. in Montgomery 
County, Ohio, on March 31, L823. He was 
married on May 23, 1849, to Isabella 
Voress Higgins, who was born at Read- 
Hamilton County, Ohio, on Septem- 
ber 19, 1828, and died near Sidney, Shelby 
County, Ohio, on June 11, 1857. Luke 
Sidney Fish married again on September 
30, 1858, to Sarah Jane Patton, who was 
born near Lexington, Kentucky, on 
June 16, 1827, and died near Sidney, 
Shelby County, Ohio, on July 31, 1892. 
There was no issue by his second wife. 
His children, by his first wife, are:— 

1— RALPH LUDLOW, born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
Juno 27, 1851, and died there Feb- 
ruary 3, 1S57. 

2— WILLIAM ALEXANDER, born 
September 15, 1852. 

3— GEORGE GOODLOW. born March 
4, 1854. 



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4— THOMAS MILTON, born May 21, 

1855. 
5— ANNA BELLE, born April 23, 1S57. 



WILLIAM ALEXANDER FISH was 
the second child of Luke Sidney and 
Isabella V. Pish, and was born in Or- 
ange Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on 




LIKE .SIDNEY FISH 



September 15, 1852. He was married on 
December 28, 1871, to Elizabeth Adaline 
Server, who was born in Green Town- 
ship, Shelby County, Ohio, September 
11, 1855. Their children are: — 

1— BABY FISH, still-born, in Sidney, 
Shelby County, Ohio, August 15, 
1872. 

2— ROLANDUS, born in Sidney, Shel- 
by County, Ohio, August 15, 1872. 

ROLANDUS FISH was the son of 
William Alexander and Elizabeth Ada- 
line Fish, and was born in Sidney, Shelby 
County, Ohio, August 15, 1872. He married 
Anna Emily Merrill, who was born in 
Manhattan, Kansas, January 14, 1874. 
Their children are:— 

1— BERTRAM, born November 5, 189(5, 



in Deriver, C_lor„do. and die 1 ther 

November 6, 1896. 

2— BABY FISH, born March 10, 1898, 
in Denver, Colorado, and died there 
March 11, 1898. 

3— MARY AXITA, born December 31, 
1900, in Denver, Colorado. 

4-HARLEY ALBERT, born Decem- 
ber 1, 1902, in Denver, Colorado, 
and died there February 6. 1903. 

5— HELEN MARIE, born November 

]:;, 1903, in Denver, Colorado. 



GEORGK GOODLOW FISH was the 
third '-nil 1 of Luke Sidney and I 
bella V. Fish, and was born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on 
M irch I. 1854. He was married on Feb- 
ruary 6, 1879, to Brazell Hannah Max- 
well, who was born in Perry Township, 
Shelby County. Ohio, on March 24, L853. 
Their only child is:— 

1— BERTHA .MILDRED, burn actober 
26, 1880, in Circleville, Pickawaj 
County, Ohio. 

THOMAS MILTON FISH was the 
fourth chill .if Luke Sidney and [sa- 
bella V. Fish, and was born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on May 
21, is.".."., lb- was marri.d un I ).-,•, n il>.-- 
2\ ivs;;. to Mary Elizabeth Robinson, win. 
was born in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, 
on November :*. 1854. She .lie. I in Green 
Township, Shelby County. Ohio, on March 
6, 1885, in giving birth to a son, who sur- 
vived her thirteen days, and was never 
christened. 



ANNA BELLE FISH was the only 
daughter and fifth child of Luke Sid- 
ney and Isabella Y. Fish, and was born 
in Orange Township, Shelby County, 
Ohio, on April 23, 1857. She was mar- 
ried on December 28. 1876. at her father's 
home, to Eleizar Fin Henry, born in Per- 
ry Township, near Sidney. Shelby County, 
Ohio. August 15. 1849. They lived in Ohio 
until the Spring of 1S85, when they moved 
to Kinsley, Kansas, living there until 
April. 1886 when they moved to Benton- 
ville, Benton County. Arkansas, where 
they now live, and where Eleazar Fin 
Henry has been engaged in the real es- 
tate business for over sixteen years. 
There was no issue. 



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EDWARD FISH 

Edward Fish was the sixth child of 
Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was born 
near Dayton, Ohio, on August 7, 1825. He 
moved north of Sidney, Shelby County, 
Ohio, and worked on his father's farm 
until his marriage on July 25, 1847, to 
Charity John, who was born in Madison 
County, Indiana, on April 21, 1825. They 
moved in 1857 to Madison County, In- 
diana, north of Chesterfield, where they 
bought a farm of SO acres, living there 




EDWARD FISH 

until 1871, when they sold out and bought 
a place west of Moonsville, in Madison 
County, Indiana, where Charity Fish 
died on December 8, 1877. Edward Fish 
married again on March 17, 1884, to Mar- 
garet Montague, but there was no issue 
by the union. Edward Fish died west of 
Moonsville, in Madison County, Indiana, 
on August 29, 1894. The children of Ed- 
ward and Charity Fish are: — 

1— GEORGE WASHINGTON WEB- 
STER, born October 30, 1849, near 
Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, and 
died there September 22, .1850. 
2— WILLIAM SCOTT, born July 6, 
1851. 



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3— JAMES EDWARD, born August 18, 
1853. 

4— LUKE ORANGE, born April 26, 
1855. 

5-CHARLES WESLEY, born Decem- 
ber 15, 1858. 

6— HANNAH JANE, bom October 1, 
1860. 

7— MORRIS JACKSON, born July 26, 
1863, in Madison County, Indiana, 
and died there October 8. 1863. 

8— SUSAN MARIETTA, born No- 
vembi r 2, 1864, in Madison County, 
Indiana, and died there April 3, 
1871, from the effects of a burn by 
falling in a kettle of syrup. 

WILLIAM SCOTT FISH was the sec- 
ond child of Edward and Charity Fish, 
and was bom July 6, 1851, north of Sid- 
lay. Shelby County. Ohio. He moved 
with his parents in 1857 to Madison C 
ty, Indiana. He was married on Septem- 
ber 3, L877, to Jane Riley, who was born 
in Madison County, Indiana. November 
8, 1852. William Scott Fish died March 
1, 1894. Their only child is:— 

1— CORNELIA PHNER, born Septi 
ber 23, 1878. 

i ' iRNELIA PHNER, who was the only 
child of William Scott and Jane Fish, 
was born September 23. 1878. She was 
married on July l, 1896, to Wallace 
Stuard, who was horn in Putnam County, 
Indiana, September l, J^7::. There was 
no issue. 



JAMES EDWARD FISH was the third 
child of Edward and Charity Fish, and 
was born north of Sidney, Shelby County. 
Ohio. ,m August 18, 1853. In the year 1857 
he moved, with his parents, near Chester- 
field. Madison County, Indiana. At the 
age of 15 he was hired to David Butler 
Sims, with whom he worked on the 
farm during the Summer and attended 
school in the Winter for a period of 
eight years. He went home for one year, 
and farmed with his father. He was 
married on February 23, 1880, to Maria 
Malishia Snider, who was born in Dela- 
ware County, Indiana, on March 24, 1863. 
Their children are:— 

1— CHARITY JANE, born April 14. 

1882. 
2— AMANDA ESTHER, born April 4, 

1S84. 



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3— WILLIAM EDWARD ALBERT, 
born November 4, 1886, in Daleville, 
Delaware County, Indiana. 

4— ELIAS PERRY, born August 20, 
1889. in Daleville, Delaware County, 
Indiana. 

5— CLARK WESLEY, born April 15, 
1891, in Daleville, Delaware County. 
Indiana. 

6— JAMES LESLIE, born September 
18, 1894, in Daleville, Delaware 
County, Indiana, and died there 
September 25, 1896. 

7— RAMON HAROLD, born June 19, 
1897. in Daleville, Delaware County, 
Indiana. 

8— CARROLL FOSTER, born Febru- 
ary 15. 1900, in Daleville, Delaware 
County, Indiana. 

CHARITY JANE FISH was the first 
child and daughter of James Edward 
and Maria Malishia Fish, and was born 
northwest of Daleville, Delaware County, 
Indiana, on April 14. 1882. She was mar- 
ried December 1, 1901, in Daleville, to 
Ward Beecher Lemon, who was born 
east of Daleville, in Delaware County, 
Indiana, on April 27, 1874. Their only 
child is: — 

1— MABEL LUCILLA, born October 
11. 1903, in Daleville, Delaware 
County, Indiana. 

AMANDA ESTHER FISH was the sec- 
ond child of James Edward and Maria 
Malishia Fish, and was born northwest 
of Daleville, Delaware County, Indiana, 
on April 4, 1884. She was married on Feb- 
ruary 23, 1902, to John Martin Rinker, 
who was born in Jay County, Indiana, 
on .May 22. lssl. Their only child is:— 
1— EMORY ALLEN, born June 17, 1903, 
in Delaware County, Indiana. 



LUKE ORANGE FISH was the fourth 
child of Edward and Charity Fish, and 
was born April 26, 1855, in Shelby County, 
Ohio. He moved with his parents in 1857 
to a farm in Madison County, Indiana. 
He was married on December 15, 1879, to 
Laura Belle Lemon, who died September 
8, 1902. She was the mother of thirteen 
children, among them being five pairs of 
twins. Their children are:— 

BABY, girl, born Sept. 13, 1881, south 
of Moonsville, Madison County, 
Indiana; died aged 1 day. 



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2— VALENTINE EDWARD, born Sep- 
tember 13, 1881, south of Moons- 
ville. Madison County, Indiana. 

3— MINNIE BELLE, born December 
20, 1882, in Daleville, Delaware 
County. Indiana. 

4— JURY, born December 20. 1882, in 
Daleville, Delaware County. In- 
diana. 

5— CHARLES NELSON, born April 29, 
18S4. in Anderson, Madison County, 
Indiana. 

6— JAMES HENRY, born January 23, 
1886, in Anderson, Madison County, 

Indiana. 

7— ROSETTA. born January 23, 1886, in 
Anderson, Madison County, In- 
diana. 

8— EVA LINK, born June 13, 1890, in 
Anderson, Madison County, In- 
diana. 

9— LUKE ORANGE, born January 3, 
L893, it! Anderson, Madison County, 
Indiana. 

10— ARTHUR, born March 15, L895, in 
Anderson, Madison County, In- 
diana. 

11— ALBERT, born March 15, 1895, in 
Anderson, Madison County, In- 
dian i. 

12— STELLA, born October T. 1898, in 
Anderson, Madison County, In- 
diana; died April 12, 1904. 

13— HAZEL, born October 7, 1898, in 
Anderson. Madison County, In- 
diana. 



Jt'RY FISH was the daughter of Luke 
Orange and Laura. Belle Fish, and was 
born December 20, 1882, in Daleville, Del- 
aware County, Indiana. She was married 
on June 17. 1901, to Bernard Maddon, who 
was born in Richmond, Indiana. July 19, 
1S72. Their children are:— 

1— HELLEN KATHERINE. born Oc- 
tober 10, 1902. in Anderson, Madison 
County. Indiana. 

2— MILDRED MARIE, born October 
1, 1903. in Anderson, Madison Coun- 
ty, Indiana. 



CHARLES WESLEY FISH, was the 
fifth child of Edward and Charity Fish, 
and was born December 15, 1S5S, in Rich- 
land Township, Madison County. Indiana. 
He married, on August 5, 1SS5. Ruth Ann 



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Nealis, who was born in Hancock Coun- 
ty, Indiana, on December 5, 1867. Their 
children are:— 

1— CHARITY ANN, born June 14, 1886, 
in Richland Township, Madison 
County, Indiana. 

2— AMANDA MARIA, born Decem- 
ber 30, 1887, in Richland Township, 
Madison County, Indiana. 

3— SOLEY, born January 20, 1890, in 
Richland Township, Madison Coun- 
ty, Indiana. 

4— JOHN EDWARD, born October 13, 
1893, in Richland Township, Madi- 
son County, Indiana. 

5— MARY BELLE, born March 20, 1896, 
in Richland Township, Madison 
County, Indiana. 

6— ROBERT HUGH, born August 15, 
1898, in Richland Township, Madi- 
son County, Indiana. 

7— HULDAH CATHARINE, born Feb- 
ruary 3, 1901, in Richland Town- 
ship, Madison County, Indiana. 

8— ERNEST OTTERBIN, born May 13, 
1903, in Richland Township, Madi- 
son County, Indiana. 



HANNAH JANE FISH was the sixth 
child of Edward and Charity Fish, and 
was born October 1, 1860, near Chester- 
field, Madison County, Indiana. She was 
married on November 21. 1882, to Miles 
Noble, who was born August 8, 1862, near 
Alexandria. Madison County, Indiana. 
Their children are:— 

1— NETTIE ORDAIN, born March 17 
1884. 

2— JESSE ELMER, born June 7. 1886, 
near Valley Falls, Jefferson Coun- 
ty. Kansas. 

3-BENTON ORAL, born April 8. 
1893, in Anders-on, Madison County. 
Indiana. 

4— BABY NOBLE, a girl, unnamed, 
born January 14. 1901, in Anderson, 
Madison County, Indiana, and died 
there on January 16, 1901, being 
only two days old. 

a— JOHN ONEY, born June 4, 1903, in 
Anderson, Madison County, Indi- 
ana. 



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NETTIE ORDAIN NOBLE was the 
first child of Hannah Jane Fish and 
Mil's Noble, and was born March 17. 
1884, near Alexandria, Madison County, 
Indiana. She was married on July 3, 
1900, to Charles Smith, who was born in 
Howard County, Indiana, April 5, 1SS0. 
Their only child is: — 

1— FLORENCE JEANNETTE, born 
January 2, 1902, in Pendleton, Mad- 
ison County, Indiana. 



MARY JANE FISH 

Mary Jane Fish was the seventh child 

of Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was 

Augusl L5, 1827, at Dayton, Ohio. 

She was married in Sidney, Ohio, on 




MARY JANE FISH 

June 18, 1S4S, to the Rev. Rhodes Ran- 
dolph, who was born in Ridgeville, War- 
ren County. Ohio, on June 17, 1S24. They 
moved to Indiana in September, 1863, lo- 
cating: at Antioch, now Andrews, where 
they lived for thirteen years, after which 
they purchased a farm in Polk Town- 
ship, near Harlansburg, and lived there 
until 1898, when they located on a tract 
near Warren. Two years afterward they 



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went to Huntington and built a residence 
on Cline Street. Rev. Rhodes Randolph 
was an active member of the Methodist 
church all his life, having joined the 
church when seventeen years of age. 
For thirty-two years he was a licensed 
preacher, having received his pulpit cre- 
dentials from Bishop Ames at a Con- 
ference held in Huntington in 1871. He 
died August 30, 1903, in Huntington, In- 
diana, and was buried in Riverside Ceme- 
tery, at Andrews, Indiana. Their child- 
ren are: — 

1— MARGARET ELIZABETH, born 
September 22, 1849. 

2— SUSAN PENINAH, born August 24, 
1853. 

3— CHARLES ROSS, born July 19, 
1856. 

4— WILLIAM BUTLER, born Novem- 
ber 12, 1858. 

5— LIDA JANE, born March 24, 1861. 

6— GEORGE WINTRODE, born De- 
cember 14, 1862. 

7— JOHN WESLEY, born April 2, 18S5. 



MARGARET ELIZABETH RAN- 
DOLPH, who was the first child of Mary 
Jane Fish and Rhodes Randolph, was 
born September 22, 1849, in Sidney, Shel- 
by County, Ohio, and died April 10, 1903, 
in Powhattan, Brown County, Kansas. 
She married James Harvey Adams, who 
was born in Rockville, Park County, In- 
diana, on March 18, 1842. He served in the 
Civil War in Company E of the 47th 
Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, of 
the Army of the Mississippi, which 
operated from Island No. 10 to the 
Gulf of Mexico. He was enrolled at In- 
dianapolis on October 24, 1861, by Cap- 
tain Wintrode, and was duly mustered 
into the military service of the United 
States, at Indianapolis, December 13, 
1861, for the term of three years, by Lieu- 
tenant Eby. He was mustered out on Oc- 
tober 23, 1865, as sergeant. He was 48 
days in the rifle pits in the siege of Vicks- 
burg. and though always at the front 
during the time of his service he had no 
hospital record. James Harvey Adams 
(in d March 17, 1904. at Kansas, City, 
Kansas. Their children are: — 

1— SCHUYLER RANDOLPH, born 
August 11, 1868. 



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2— IX A MAY, born September 11, 
1S73. 

3— ORA ROSCOE, born October 25, 
1875, 

4— MARY EMMA, born May 17, 1878, 
in Antioch (now Andrews), Hunt- 
ington County, Indiana. She died 
May 8, L879, in Leroy, Michigan, 
and was buried at Andrews, In- 
diana. 

5— CHARLES HENRY, born Novem- 
ber 25, 1883, in Raker. Kansas. 



SCHUYLER RANDOLPH ADAMS was 
the first child of Margaret Elizabeth 
Randolph and James Harvey Adams, 
and was born August 11, 1868, in Anti- 
och (now Andrews), Huntington County, 
Indiana. He married Elizabeth Ann 
Marriott, who was born in Blairton. Can- 
ada, on June 12. 1867. He was employed 
as a locomotive fireman. Their chiM 
are:— 

1— ALVA CECIL, b irn December 2C, 
1896, in Powhattan, Brown County, 
Kansas. 

2— IXA .MAY. born June 4, 1S98, in 
Litchfield, Illinois. 

3— MART MAURINE, born July 31, 
1S99, in Bloomington, Illinois. 



IXA MAY ADAMS was the second 
child of Margaret Elizabeth Randolph 
and James Harvey Adams, and was born 
September 11, 1873, in Antioch (now An- 
drews), Huntington County, Indiana. She 
married Clarence Zimmerman, a black- 
smith and wagon maker, of Powhattan, 
Kansas, who was born April 22, 1868, in 
Mt. Pocono, Monroe County, Pennsylva- 
nia. Their children are: — 

1— ALTA MURIEL, born March 23, 
1S95, at Powhattan, Brown Coun- 
ty. Kansas, and died August 1, 
1895, at Powhattan, Brown County, 
Kansas. 

2— DAXIEL ARYEL, born February 
12, 1897, at Powhattan, Brown 
County, Kansas. 

3— VIVIAN IONE, born October 31, 
189S, at Powhattan, Brown Coun- 
ty, Kansas. 



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ORA ROSCOB ADAMS was the third 
child of Margaret Elizabeth Randolph 
and James Harvey Adams, and was 
born October 25, 1S75, in Antioch (now 
Andrews), Huntington County, Indiana. 
He was a conductor on the Chicago, 
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. He mar- 
ried Carrie Effa Springer, who was born 
in Phillipsburg, Phillips County, Kansas, 
on December 17, 1881. Their only child is: 

1— HARVEY OLIVER, born April 9, 
1902, in Horton, Kansas. 



SUSAN PENTNAH RANDOLPH was 
the second child of Mary Jane Fish and 
Rhodes Randolph, and was born August 
24, 1853, in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. 
She married John Quincy Adams, who 
served in the Civil War as a private in 
Company H, Ninetieth Regiment of In- 
diana Volunteers. He was enrolled 
at Indianapolis, on November 2, 1864, 
and was duly mustered into the 
military service of the United States 
at Indianapolis, on the same day, 
by Captain Dunn, and was mus- 
tered out on June 15, 1865. He died 
on April 3, 1875, in Andrews, Indiana, 
from the effects of exposure contracted 
during service. John Quincy Adams was 
a brother of James Harvey Adams, who 
married Margaret Elizabeth Randolph, a 
sister of Susan P. Randolph. Susan P. 
was married a second time to John Albert 
Fisher, born at Mt. Etna, Indiana, July 
5, 1862. There were two sons by her first 
marriage. Her children are:— 

1— MELA r IN HARVEY, born April 
18, 1S73, in Antioch (now Andrews), 
Huntington County, Indiana. He 
was unmarried. 

2- JOHN QUINCY, born June 12, 
1875, in Antioch (now Andrews), 
Huntington County, Indiana, and 
died October 12, 1900, in Hunting- 
ton, Indiana. He was unmarried. 



CHARLES ROSS RANDOLPH was the 
third child of Mary Jane Fish and 
Rhodes Randolph, and was born July 
19, 1856, in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. 
He was a contractor and builder. He 
married Cyrena Ellen Starbuck, who 



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was born in Richmond, Wayne County, 
Indiana, on February 23. 1856. Their only 
child was: — 

1— LULU CLAIR, born April 29, 1890, 
in Afton. Indian Territory, Chero- 
kee Nation. 



WILLIAM BUTLER RANDOLPH was 
the fourth child of Mary Jane Fish and 
Rhodes Randolph, and was born No- 
vember 12, 1858, in Sidney, Shelby County. 
Ohio. In 1SS7 he entered the ministry of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the 
Ninth Indiana Conference, but had to 
discontinue the work in 1889 on account of 
a compli te breakdown in health, which 
occurred at Fountain City. As a result 
of this he was given a supernumerary 
relation I i the North Indiana Conference 
and at the time of his death, on February 
1<*. 1904, at Logansport, was a superan- 
nuated member of the conference. Before 
his death, he was engaged in secular pur- 
suits, being a commercial traveler. As 
boy, man and minister he was always 
pleasant, and in the pulpit energetic and 
aide, being gifted in prayer and sermon- 
izing. He was a member of the Ben Hur 
fraternity. The obsequies took place in 
Huntington. Indiana, on February 13, the 
Rev. Mr. Runkle, of Marion; the Rev. 
Mr. Guild and the Rev. Mr. Robinson, 
of Huntington, officiating. He was in- 
terred at Mt. Hope Cemetery. William 
Butler Randolph was married In 1885 to 
Laura Anne Miller, who was born Feb- 
ruary 3. 1862. in Markle, Indiana. Their 
children are: — 

1— EOLA FERN, born February 12, 
1886, in Mt. Etna, Huntington 
County, Indiana. 

2— FOSS BUTLER, born February 15, 
1889, in Knightstown, Indiana. 

3— PAUL MILLER, born May 8, 1895, 
in Marion, Indiana. 



LIDA JANE RANDOLPH was the fifth 
child of Mary Jane Fish and Rhodes 
Randolph, and was born March 24, 1861, 
in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. She 
married Oliver Nathan Snider, born De- 
cember 5, 1854, in Mt. Etna, Huntington 
County, Indiana. He taught in the public 
schools of Huntington County for a peri- 



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od of seven years prior to engaging in 
business as a grocer. Their only son 
was:— 

1— WILBUR RANDOLPH, born Sep- 
tember 6, 1891, in Harlansburgh, 
Huntington County, Indiana. 

GEORGE WINTRODE RANDOLPH 
was the sixth child of Mary Jane Fish and 
Rhodes Randolph, and was born De- 
cember 14, 1862, in Sidney, Shelby County, 
Ohio. He was Superintendent of the Had- 
ley Industrial School for Orphan Girls, 
near Indianapolis, supported by the 
Women's Christian Temperance Union of 
the State of Indiana. He married Caro- 
line Shipps, who was born March 5, 1871, 
in Arcadia, Indiana. There was no issue. 



JOHN WESLEY RANDOLPH was the 
seventh and last child of Mary Jane Fish 
and Rhodes Randolph, and was born 
April 2, 1865, in Antioch (now Andrews), 
Huntington County, Indiana. He married 
Elizabeth Thrasher, born February 15, 
1871, in Roanoke, Indiana. Their only 
child is:— 

1— BEULAH MAUDE, born February 
4, 1893, in Roanoke, Indiana. 



JAMES FISH 

James Fish was the eighth child of 
Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was born 
on a farm near Dayton, Ohio, on August 
28, 1829. He .moved to Shelby County, 
Ohio, with his father, when a boy in 
his teens, where he helped to clear a 
large farm near Sidney. James Fish mar- 
ried while there, and lived on his father's 
farm for several years. In 1860 he mov- 
ed near Sumner, Lawrence Coun- 
ty, Illinois, living there six years, when 
he returned in the Spring of 1865 
to his old home at the urgent re- 
quest of his father. He lived there 
two years, and on the death of his lather 
moved in 1S68 to near Troy, Miami Coun- 
ty, Ohio, where he died on May 5, 1902. 
James Fish married on October 12, 
1854, Mary Denman, who was born 
near Fletcher, Miami County, Ohio, 
on October 27, 1834. She was a school 
teacher, and previous to her marriage was 
engaged as a milliner. She was a woman 



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of more than ordinary education for that 
period, and was known as a most devout 
Christian and church worker, and held a 




JAMES FISH 



life membership in a Missionary Society. 
Shi died near Troy, Ohio, on May L3, 1893. 
Their children are: — 

1— FLORA AGNES, bom November 

23, 1S55. 

2— FRANK LEOTUS, born November 
12, 1S58. 

3-JOHN CLARENCE, born May 25, 
1S60. 

4— CHARLES ALBERT, burn July 26, 
1S62. 

5-RUFUS, born November 24, 1864. 

6— WILLIAM AYERS, born June 21, 

1868. 
7— JAMES EDWIN, born August 12. 

1870. 

S— ELMER, born August 1, 1875. 



FLORA AGNES FISH, who was the 
first and only daughter of James and 
Mary Fish, was born near Sidney, Shelby 
County, Ohio, November 23, 1855, and died 
in Troy. Ohio, October 17, 1898. She mar- 



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ried Henry Conklin, who was born Oc- 
tober 2, 1847, in Troy, Ohio. There was 
no issue. 



FRANK LEOTUS FISH was the sec- 
ond child of James and Mary Fish, and 
was born near Sidney, Shelby County, 
Ohio, on November 12, 1858. Very early 
in life he went to Illinois, where he lived 
six years on a farm on the prairies, and 
returning- to Ohio, was engaged on a 
farm till he was 21 years of age. 
After that time he was a clerk in the 
retail grocery business for thirteen years, 
and later was employed for many years 
as a traveling salesman for a house in 
Dayton, Ohio. Frank Leotus Fish was 
married in Troy, Ohio, to Nanna Maria 
Armstrong, who was born in Tippecanoe 
City, Ohio, on March 30, 1S63. After finish- 
ing- at school she was a clerk in Troy 
and Cincinnati, and previous to her mar- 
riage was a milliner. Their children 
are:— 

1-CLARA ARMSTRONG, born May 
30, 1S8S, in Troy, Ohio. 

2— GLADYS LEOTA, born February 1, 
1897, in Dayton, Ohio. 



JOHN CLARENCE FISH was the third 
child of James and Mary Fish, and was 
born near Sumner. Lawrence County, Il- 
linois, on May 26, 1S60. He was engaged in 
business as a feed and cornmeal mer- 
chant. He married Jane Hetzler, born 
near Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, on 
December 2, 1865. Their children are:— 

1— WILLIAM ROY, born January 9, 

1889, near Troy, Ohio. 
2— RUFUS EARL, born June 22, 1893, 

near Troy, Ohio. 
3— FREDERICK J, born May 30, 1896, 

near Troy, Ohio; died in Troy, 

Ohio, April 2, 1901. 

CHARLES ALBERT FISH was the 
fourth child of James and Mary Fish, 
and was born near Sumner, Lawrence 
County, Illinois, on July 26, 1862. 
He was engaged in business as a farmer 
near Troy, Ohio. He married Rosa Belle 
Iddings. who was born in Troy, Ohio, on 
August 28, 1865. Their children are:— 

1— ALFRED JAMES, born December 
16, 1893, in Celina, Ohio. 



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2— WALTER IDDIXGS, born Septem- 
ber 4, 1900, in Troy, Ohio. 



RUFUS FISH was the fifth child of 
James and Mary Fish, and was born 
near Sumner, Lawrence County, Illi- 
nois, on November 24, 1S64. He received 
his education in the country schools and 
followed the occupation o.! a farmer un- 
til 2S years of age, when he moved to 
Troy, Miami County, Ohio, and there 
entered the employ of the principal grain 
merchants as weighmaster, a position he 
held for eleven years, relinquishing it on 
being elected superintendent of the Knoop 
children's Home of Miami County, Ohio. 
which position he now holds. The home 
contains about sixty children. He mar- 
ried Mary Jane Walker, who was born 
near Piqua, Miami Countly, Ohio, on 
May 19, 1863. They had no issue, and 
therefore it was fitting they sin mid look 
after the children of the county. 



WILLIAM AYERS FISH was the sixth 
child of James and Mary Pish, and was 
born near Trey. Miami County, Ohio, on 
June 21, 1S68. He was accidentally killed 
at that place on .March 26, 1880, being only 
12 years of age. 



JAMES EDWIN FISH was the seventh 
child of James and Mary Fish, and was 
born in Miami County, near Trey. Ohio, 
August 12, 1870. He moved from Troy 
to Dayton, Ohio, on October 20, 1890. 
He was employed as a grocery clerk 
for four years and afterward as a 
wholesale clerk until leaving Troy, 
when he accepted a position as wood- 
worker in Dayton, Ohio. James Ed- 
win served four years in the Ohio Na- 
tional Guard as sergeant, and has an 
honorable discharge, his papers being 
signed by the martyred President, Wil- 
liam McKinley. He was married in Day- 
ton. Ohio, on October 18. 1896, to Jennie 
Archer DeVore, who was born in Neoga, 
Illinois, on March 29, 1871. Their children 
are:— 

1— ELLWOOD JAMES, bom in Day- 
ton, Ohio, July 15. 1897. 

2— ROBERT EDWIN, born in Dayton. 

Ohio, October 27, 1898. 

3— RAYMOND CHARLES, born in 
Dayton, Ohio, July 31, 1901. 



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ELMER FISH was the eighth and 
last child of James and Mary Fish, and 
was born on a farm four miles north- 
west of Troy, Ohio, on August 4, 1875. He 
was for some years the foreman of the 
McKinnon Dash and Hardware Manu- 
facturing Company, of Troy, Ohio. He 
married Elizabeth Longendelpher, born 
January 29, 1874, on a farm four and a 
half miles northwest of Troy, Ohio. Their 
only child is: — 

1— WILBUR, born on a farm near 
Casstown, Ohio, July 20, 1897. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON FISH 

George Washington Fish was the ninth 
child of Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and 
was born in Dayton, Montgomery 




GEORGE WASHINGTON FISH 



County, Ohio, on February 22,. 1832. .He 
was married on October 28, 1S54, to 
Amanda Douglas Buchanan, who was 
born in Dayton, Montgomery County, 
Ohio, on May 28, 1832, the ceremony tak- 
ing place at the home of her parents, 
David and Mary Buchanan. George 
Washington Fish served one hundred 



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days in the Civil War, in Company K of 
the 134th Regiment of Ohio infantry. The 
term of his enlistment was short, but 
it was distinguished by memorable events 
in the Valley of the Shenandoah, on the 
Peninsula, in operations on the James 
River, around Petersburg and Rich- 
mond, in the battle of Monocacy, in the 
entrenchments at Washington, and at 
other important points, and was honor- 
ably discharged on December 15, 1864. He 
moved to Wood County, Ohio, in May, 
1867, it then being a dense forest, except 
.i small plot of ground on which they 
built a log cabin. The log cabin is still 
then as an old landmark. Amanda Doug- 
las Pish died al Des'hler, Henry County, 
Ohio, on March \ i^m;. and George Wash- 
ington Fish died at the same place on 
March 1. l v :d. Their children are: — 

1— MARY BELLE, born November IT, 
1855. 

2— ANASTASIA ERNESTINE, horn 
September 22. 1857. 

3— JESSE LINCOLN, burn August 9, 
1859. 

4— NETTIE PERDITA, born July 28, 
1862. 

5— LULU IONA, born November 24, 
1865. 



MARY BELLE FISH was the first 

child of George Washington and Amanita 
Fish, and was horn in Orange Township, 
Shelby County, Ohio, Nov. 17. 1S55. She 
married on March 8, 1878, to Nathan- 
iel Henry LMshong, who was born in 
Harrieonville, Fulton County, Pennsyl- 
vania, January 19, 1851. At the time of 
their marriage Nathaniel Henry Dishong 
was a farmer, but in February, 1898, he 
and his family moved to Toledo, Ohio, 
where he went into business for himself, 
establishing a meat market. Their chil- 
dren are: — 

1— QUEENIE WINIFRED, born May 
23, 1878. 

2— EVA GRACE, born September 11, 

1883. 

3— MYRTLE DESSIE. born October 
25, 1885, in Wood County, Ohio. 

4— NETTIE GERTRUDE, born Janu- 
ary 6, 1888, in Wood County, Ohio. 

5— GEORGE HENRY, born November 
17, 1890, in Wood County, Ohio. 



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QUEENIE WINIFRED DISHONG was 
the first child of Mary Belle Fish and 
Nathaniel Henry Dishong, and was born 
in Wood County, Ohio, on May 23, 1878. 
She was married on July 15, 1896, to Wal- 
ter Lavan Westlake, who was born in 
Millbrook, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, 
on September 15, 1871. He was a tool 
dresser by occupation. Their children 
are:— 

1— BABY WESTLAKE, at Kilgore, 
Mercer County, Pennsylvania, May 
6, 1897; was stillborn. 

2— GRACE ROENA, born March 13, 
1899. in Wesley, Venango County, 
Pennsylvania. 

3— KENNETH, born July 21, 1900, in 
Glade Mills, Butler County, Penn- 
sylvania; died there March 1, 1901. 

4— MARGARET BELLE, born Janu- 
ary 26, 1902, in Glade Mills, Butler 
County, Pennsylvania. 

EVA GRACE DISHONG was the second 
child of Mary Belle Fish and Nathaniel 
Henry Dishong, and was born in Wood 
County, Ohio, on September 11, 1S83. She 
was married on April 2, 1902, to John 
Franklin Wheeler, who was born in Wap- 
akoneta, Auglaize County, Ohio, on July 
6, 1880. He was manager of the Deshler 
Electric Light Company. Their only 
child is: — 

1— HERBERT LAVAN, born April 7, 
1903, in Deshler, Henry County. 
Ohio. 



ANASTASIA ERNESTINE FISH was 
the second child of George Washington 
and Amanda, Fish, and was born in Or- 
ange Township, Shelby County, Ohio, on 
Sept. 22, 1857. She was married on No- 
vember 25, 1880, to Frank Marion Shaff- 
stall, who was born in Portage, Wood 
County, Ohio, on September 13, 1857. She 
died on January 17, 1881, in Deshler, Hen- 
ry County, Ohio. There was no issue. 



JESSE LINCOLN FISH was the third 
child of George Washington and Amanda 
Fish, and was born in Orange Township, 
Shelby County, Ohio, on Aug. 9, 1859. 
He died in Deshler, Henry County, Ohio, 
on Dec. 27, 1880. He was unmarried. 



NETTIE PERDITA FISH was the 
fourth child of George Washington and 



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Amanda Fish, and was born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, Ohio., on July 
28, 1862. She was unmarried. 



LULU IONA FISH was the fifth and 
last child of George Washington and 
Amanda Fish, and was born in Orange 
Township, Shelby County, O., on Nov. -4, 
1865. She was married on August 19, 1SS2, 
to Frank Marion Shaffstall, who was 
born in Portage, Wood County, Ohio, on 
September 13, 1857. He was engaged in 
farming. Their children are:— 

1-GEORGE LINCOLN, born May 19. 
1883, in Wood County, Ohio. 

2— MEARLE DOUGLAS, born No- 
vember 20, 1886, in Wood Countv, 
Ohio. 

3— FLORENCE CATHARINE, born 
September 30. 1891. in Wood 
County, Ohio. 

GEORGE LINCOLN SHAFFSTALL 
was the first child of Lulu Iona Fish and 
Frank Marion Shaffstall, and was horn 
near Deshler, Henry County. Ohio, on 
May L9, 1883. He followed the life of a 
farmer, and was married on July 3. 1903, 
to Mabel Dubbs, who was born in Mil- 
ton Center, Wood County. Ohio, on 
April 5, 1880. Their only child is:— 

1— MERLE RICHARD, born Decem- 
ber 21, 1903, in Jackson Township, 
Wood County, Ohio. 



HANNAH FISH 

Hannah Fish was the tenth child of 
Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was born 
in Montgomery County, Ohio, on July 16, 
1S34. She was married on October 7, 1852, 
to Robert Webster Clay Buchanan, Sr., 
a farmer, who was born in Montgomery 
County, Ohio, on August 8, 1830. He was 
a private under Captain David B. Rine- 
hart, Company K, of the 134th Regiment 
of Ohio Volunteers, and was enrolled 
-May 6, 1864, to serve one hundred days, 
and was a charter member of Lodge No. 
520, Free and Accepted Masons, of Desh- 
ler, Ohio, being it's Worshipful Master 
during the years 1882 to 1886. He moved to 
Wood County, Ohio, in 1867, and lived in 
a log cabin, surrounded by woods, but 
which is now cleared for miles around. 



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He died in Wood County, Ohio, on Octo- 
ber 9, 1900. Their children are:— 

1— GEORGE LUKE, born August 25, 
1S53. 

2— MART ROSALTHA, born Decem- 
ber 29, 1855. 

3— HANNAH MARGARET, born May 
29, 185S. 

4— IDA MAUDE GASTON, born June 
29, 1860. 




HANNAH FISH 



5— ELIZABETH JANE, born Febru- 
ary IS, 1S63. 

6— MINNIE ELLANORA, born De- 
cember 26, 1865. 

7— JOHN DAVTD, born Oct. 11, 1869. 
8— ROBERT WEBSTER CDAY, JR., 
born December 15, 1872. 



GEORGE LUKE BUCHANAN was the 
first child of Hannah Fish and Robert 
Webster Clay Buchanan, Sr., and was 
born in Shelby County, Ohio, on August 
25, 1S53. He died in Deshler, Ohio, on De- 
cember 26, 1881. He was unmarried. 



MARY ROSALTHA BUCHANAN was 
the second child of Hannah Fish and 



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Robert Webster Clay Buchanan, Si\, and 
was born in Shelby County. Ohio, on 
December 29, 1855. She was married on 

April 17, 1873, to John Farquharson, who 
was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 
November 18, 1848. Their children are:— 

1— BRUCE, bum March 24, 1874. 
2— ROBERT, horn in Wood County, 
Ohio, March 23, 1S76. 

3— MAGGIE MAUDE', born in Wood 
County, Ohio, September 17, 1879. 

4— GEORGIE. born in Wood County, 
Ohio. Much 15, 1884; died in Desh- 
ler, Ohio. March It. lss5. 

5— DON DOUGLAS, born in Wood 

County, Ohio. S< ptember 9, 1886. 
6— Oi'AI* LKXOKA, born in Wood 

County, Ohio, December 8. iss.s; 

died in Di s-hli r, <>., August 31, 1889. 
7— CHARLES WEBSTER, born in 

W I County. Ohio. November 13, 

L890; died in Deshler, Ohio, Septem- 

bi r 7, 1892. 
8— DOROTHY, born in Wood County, 

Ohio. November 16, 1807. 

BRUCE FARQUHARSON was the first 
child of Mary Rosaltha Buchanan and 
John Farquharson. and was born in 
Wood County, Ohio, March 24, 1874. He 
married Lizzie Ann Powers, who was 
born in Deshler, Ohio, on September 27, 
1876. Their children are: — 

1— LEORA ROSALTHA, born in Desh- 
ler, Ohio, December 29, 1896. 

2— JOHN ROBERT, born in Wood 
County, near Deshler, Ohio, No- 
vember 26. 1898. 

3— ANDY McKINLEY, born in Wood 
County, near Deshler, Ohio, No- 
vember 6, 1900. 

4— TEDDY, born in Wood County, 
near Deshler, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1902. 



HANNAH MARGARET BUCHANAN 
was the third child of Hannah Fish and 
Robert Webster Clay Buchanan, Sr., and 
was born in Shelby County. Ohio, on 
May 29, 1858. She was married on April 
4, 1882, to Albert Arlington McFadden, a 
mail carrier, who was born in Portage, 
Wood County. Ohio, on December 23, 
1854. Their children are: — 

1— INA MAY, born May 12, 1SS3. 



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2— NOAH EARL, born in Wood Coun- 
ty, Ohio, August 28, 1884. 

3— GEORGE WEBSTER. born in 
Wood County, Ohio, April 9, 1886. 

4— RILLA PEARL, born in Wood 
County, Ohio, March 6, 1888. 

INA MAY McFADDEN was the first 
child of Hannah Margaret Buchanan and 
Albert Arlington McFadden, and was 
bom in Wood County, Ohio, on May 12, 
1883. She was married on July 27, 1901, 
to George Wright Myrice, who was born 
near Portage, Wood County, Ohio, on 
April 27, 1878. 



IDA MAUDE GASTON BUCHANAN 
was the fourth child of Hannah Fish and 
Robert Webster Clay Buchanan. Sr., and 
was born in Shelby County, Ohio, on June 
29, 1S60. She was married on June 29, 1S82, 
to John Van Horn, by occupation a car- 
penter, who was born near Grand Rapids. 
Wood County, Ohio, on June 23, 1857. 
Their children are:— 

1— VERNON BLAINE, born in Wood 
County, Ohio, August 3, 1884. 

2— DARREL D, born in Wood County, 
Ohio, June 9, 1886. 

3— IDA MAUDE, born in Wood Coun- 
ty, Ohio, January 23, 1888. 

4— GLEN AUBREY, born in Wood 
County, Ohio, June 5, 1890. 

5— NELLIE BERYL, born in Wood 
County, Ohio, February 16, 1S94. 

6— BESSIE GRACE, born in Wood 
County. Ohio, Nov. 5. 1901; died 
near Deshler, Ohio, Nov. 2, 1902. 



ELIZABETH JANE BUCHANAN was 
the fifth child of Hannah Fish and Rob- 
ert Webster Clay Buchanan, Sr., and 
was born in Shelby County, Ohio, on 
February IS, 1863, and died in Wood Coun- 
ty, near Deshler, Ohio, on November 11, 
1895. She was married on January 14, 
1886, to William Alford Lyle, a farmer, 
who was born in McConnelsville, Morgan 
County, Ohio, on November 4, 1861. Their 
children are:— 

1— GLADYS ELDANORA, born in 
Wood County, near Deshler, Ohio, 
August 13, 1886. 

2— MADGE WILMA, born in Wood 
County, near Deshler, Ohio, Feb- 
ruary 10, 1889. 



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3— ROBERT EMMET, bom in Wood 

County, near Deshler, Ohio. Sep- 
tember 8, 1892. 

4— JENNIE, born in Wood County. 
near Deshler, Ohio, October 20. 1895 



MINNIE ELLANORA BUCHANAN 
was the sixth child of Hannah Fish and 
Robert Webster Clay Buchanan, Sr., and 
« ' born in Shelby County, Ohio, on De- 
cember 26, 1865. She was married in ( >cto- 
1m r, 1890, to Elijah Turner Kline, a far- 
mer, who was born near Shawtown, in 
I'm nam County. Ohio, August 3, 1861. 
Their children are: — 

1— GEORJGE RAY, bum July 25, 1891, 

in Wood < 'ounty, neai Di shier, i i 
2— JENNIE VERA, born April 26, 1893, 

in Wood County, near Deshler, O. 
3— FAY HOBSON, born April 24, 1898, 

in Wood County, near Deshler, O. 
4— ROBERT 1 >.\I.K. born De :. L9, 

in W 1 County, near Deshler, O. 

5— FORESTER EDWARD, born Maj 

1, 1903. in "Wood County, neai 

Deshler. Ohio. 



JOHN DAVID BUCHANAN was the 
seventh child of Hannah Fisli and Rob- 
ert Webster Clay Buchanan. Sr.. and wa 
born in Wood County, Ohio, on Uctobei 

11. 1869. He was a farmer by occupation, 
and was married on December 25. 1895, to 
Ella Mabel Fought, -who w r as born in 
.Martin, Ottawa County, Ohio, on May 

12, 1S7S. Their children are:— 

1— LAURA GLADYS, born in T< mple, 
Clare County, Michigan, Novem- 
bi r 26, 1896. 

2— ELSIE LEAH, born in Toledo. O., 
Feb. 17, 1901; died in Wood County, 
near Deshler. O., Aug. 4, 1902. 



ROBERT WEBSTER CLAY BUCHAN- 
AN, JR., was the eighth and last child 
of Hannah Fish and Robert Webster 
Clay Buchanan, Sr., and was born in 
Wood County, Ohio, on December 15, 
1S72. By occupation he was a thresher and 
farmer. He was married on February 
7, 1895, to Ella Elnora Price, who was 
born in Wood County, near Deshler, 
Ohio, April 20, 1878. Their children are:— 

1— BURLEY CALVIN, born in Wood 
County, near Deshler, O., Sept. 12. 
1895; died there June 15, 1898. 



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2— MABEL PEARL, born in Wood 
County, near Deshler, Ohio, July 
30, 1899. 

3— ROBERT WEBSTER CLAY, 3D, 
born in Wood County, near Desh- 
ler, Ohio, December 27, 1901. 

4— GEORGE CRAWFORD, born in 
Wood County, near Deshler, Ohio, 
July 3, 1903. 




HANNAH FISH (nee CARRIOK). 



HENRY FISH 

Henry Fish was the eleventh child 
of Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was 
born in Dayton. Ohio, August 24, 1836. He 
died in Dayton, Ohio, September 6, 1836, 
being only thirteen days old. 



SARAH FISH 

Sarah Fish was the twelfth and 
last child of Luke, Jr., and Mary Fish, 
and was born in Sidney, Shelby County, 
Ohio, May 28, 1838. She died August 12, 
1S3S, in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, 
being but two months and fifteen days 
eld. 



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EDWARD FISH 

Edward Fish, who was the sixth and 
last child of Luke, Sr., and Margaret 
Fish, was born in England, March 24, 
1802, and died in Sidney, Shelby County, 
Ohio, December 3, 1886, aged 84 years. 
On the day he arrived in the United 
States he declared his intention of be- 
coming an American citizen. For 
many years he was officially connected 




KliWAKK FISH 



with the educational institutions of the 
district in which he lived. He married 
Hannah Carrick. who was born in Eng- 
land January 25, 1797, and died in Sidney, 
Shelby County, Ohio, April 12, 1881, aged 
s! years. She was the daughter of Nich- 
olas and M irgaret (nee Whitfield) Car- 
rick, who were born in Northumberland 
County, England. Their children are:— 

1— NICHOLAS, born December 9, 1822. 

2— JOHN, born September 4, 1827. 

3— RICHARD, born March 9, 1829. 

4— MARGARET, born November 3, 
1835. 

5— JANE, born March 8, 1838. 



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NICHOLAS FISH 

Nicholas Fish, who was the first child 
of Edward and Hannah Fish, was born 
in England, December 9, 1822, and died at 
9 East Tower Street, Carlisle, England, 
September 9, 1865, aged 43 years. He was' 
early put to work as a weaver, having 
a handloom in the house in which he 
lived, and in later years was employed as 
a pattern worker in Dixon's factory, 
West Tower Street, Carlisle. He was a 
man of great strength of character, and 




HANNAH FISH (nee L.OSH) 



!'ii- many years was in regular attend- 
ance at the Bible Class conducted by the 
Dean of Carlisle. His death occurred un- 
der very pathetic circumstances. ±113 
daughter, Margaret, was taken sick with 
typhoid fever, being too ill to be removed 
from home, while four other children, 
Mary. Jane. David and Isabella, were 
taken to the hospital with the same 
fever. While they were there, he died at 
home. The only likeness of Nichula-^ 
Fish was an oil painting, lifesize, exe- 
cuted especially for his father in Ameri- 
ca, and though sent from England with a 
friend of the family, it never reached 
its destination. Nicholas Fish married 



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Hannah Losh, born March 10, 1824, in 
Cockermouth, England. She was a 
worthy mother of a large family. During 
the life of her husband she was the main 
source of supply for all his "bobbins," 
working the spinning wheel while nurs- 
ing her children or attending to her 
household duties, and often sitting at the 
loom herself. She struggled hard to give 
her children a common school education, 
denying herself many of the necessities 
of life in order to do so. In looks Hannah 
Fish was a splendid old woman, but 
grander still in character, and was an 
ideal and good Christian mother. She 
died in Padiham, Lancashire. England, 
on April 4, 1904, aged 80 years. Their 
children are: — 

1— EDWARD DUNCOMBE, born Oc- 
tober 21, 1844. 

2— MARY, born December 6, 1845. 

3— JOHN, born September 19, 1847. 

4— JANE, born September 2, 1849. 

5— MARGARET, born August 30, 1851. 

6— DAVID, born November 11, 1853. 

7— ISABELLA, born March 2, 1855. 

S— RICHARD, born December 25, 1856. 

9— WILLIAM, born November 3, 1858. 

10— LAWSON FREDERICK, bom De- 
cember 2, I860. 

11— ANN, born February 3, 1864. 

12— HANNAH, born March 14, 1865. 



EDWARD DUNCOMBE FISH was the 
first child of Nicholas and Hannah Fish, 
and was born in Carlisle, England, Oc- 
tober 21, 1844. He received a common 
school education and was apprenticed 
when about 15 years of age to the 
printing and lithographing business. Be- 
fore he had finished his apprenticeship 
his master was declared a bankrupt, re- 
leasing Edward Duncombe, who went to 
Liverpool, England, as a turn-over ap- 
prentice, where he succeeded in getting 
employment with a Arm publishing a 
daily list of stock quotations. It was 
Edward Duncombe's duty to go to the 
Exchange for the quotations, and he was 
often requested to write a few lines 
giving the condition of the market for 
the clay, which were the means of se- 
curing for him a place in a broker's 
office, and eventually being placed on the 
Exchange as a buyer and seller for the 
house of Colonel Tilney. On the death 



of Colonel Tilney, Edward Duncombe, 
because he was not taken in as a part- 
ner, started business for himself as a 
stock and share broker on April 15, 1882, 
with an office in 15 Hackin's Hey, Liver- 
pool, and was successful up to his un- 
timely death. Crossing from Liverpool 
to Birkenhead on the underground rail- 
way that tunnels the River Mersey, he 
was accidentally killed at the Birken- 
head side while on his way home, De- 
cember 31, 1S95. He was a Liberal in pol- 
itics, and took an active part in the for- 




BDWARD DUNCOMBE FISH 



mation of the Liberal Club in the Old 
Chester Road Music Hall, Birkenhead. 

As a member of the Wesley Chapel in 
that town he joined in the various move- 
ments connected with church life, es- 
pecially taking an interest in the Wes- 
ley Literary Society, before which he 
read several papers on natural history. 
Edward Duncombe was also a member 
of the Birkenhead Literary and Scien- 
tific Society and the Liverpool Field Na- 
turalists' Society, frequently lecturing to 
the farmers in South West Lancashire 
on insect pests and how to deal with 
them. He was Vice-president of the 
Liverpool, England, Entomological So- 



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ciety in 1884, and as Vice-president of the 
Tranmere Rovers' Football Club he gave 
it unstinted support. He married Caro- 
line Hutchinson, who was born July 14, 
1846, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. 
She was a daughter of a Liverpool Cus- 
tom House Officer. Their children are:— 

1— ANN, born September 7, 1869, in 
Liverpool, Lancashire, England. 

2-iHENRY JOHN, born Aug. 16, 1871, 
in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. 

3— THOMAS HERBERT, born August 
20, 1873, in Liverpool, Lancashire, 
England. 

4— GEORGE WILLIAM, born Feb- 
ruary 22, 1876, in Birkenhead, Che- 
shire, England. 



MARY FISH was the second child of 
Nicholas and Hannah Fish, and was born 
in Queen Street, Carlisle, England, De- 
cember 6, 1S45. She was married in Car- 




MARY FISH 



lisle to Thomas Barton, a bookkeeper, 
who was born in Preston, Lancashire, 
England, March 31, 1S44. They moved into 
Lancashire, where they lived a short 
time at White Lee, near Burnley, and 
then at Gorton, near Manchester, and 
afterward settled in Wigan, where they 



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began the notion and haberdashery bus- 
iness. Their children are:— 

1— JOSEPH BRAY, born May 8, 1868, 
at White Lee, near Burnley, Lan- 
cashire, England. 

2— WILLIAM EDWARD, born April 
4, 1870, at Gorton, near Manches- 
ter, Lancashire, England. 

3— DAVID, born May 24. 1872, at Gor- 
ton, near Manchester, Lancashire, 
England. 

4— RICHARD, born October 31, 1874, 
at Wigan, Lancashire, England; 
died Decembe- 2. 1S75, at Wig 
Lancashire, England. 

5— HANNAH ISABELLA, born De- 
cember 8, 1875, at Wigan, I. mca- 
shire, England. 

6— RICHARD, born September 25, 187S, 
at Wigan, Lancashire, England. 

7— JOHN FREDERICK, born May 2d, 
1881, at Wigan, Lancashire, Eng- 
land. 

8— MARGARET JANE, born Feb- 
ruary l. 1885, at Wigan, Lanca- 
shire, England. 

9— KM MA CAROLINE, born June 28, 
1S87, at Wigan, Lancashire, Ens- 
land. 

10— MABEL ANNIE, born April 1. 
1390, at Wigan, Lancashire, Eng- 
land. 

WILLIAM EDWARD BARTON was the 

•I child of Mary Fish and Thomas 
Barton, and was born in Gorton, near 
Manchester, England. April 4. 1870. He 
was educated in the schools of Wigan. 
He studied vocal music and was prin- 
cipal bass singer in the Wigan Parish 
Church choir. In May, 1894, he was ap- 
pointed to a similar position in the Amer- 
ican church in Paris, France, and later 
was engaged as a professor of vocal mu- 
sic in the Canadian College of Music, Ot- 
tawa, Canada. In 1900 he moved to To- 
ronto, Ontario, where he was appointed 
singing master at the Toronto College of 
Music and choir master at St. Mar- 
garet's Episcopal Church, and in 1901 he 
sang before an audience of 12,000 people 
in the Mechanics' Pavilion, San Fran- 
cisco. He was married on Christ- 
mas Day, 1S99, from the home of his 
uncle, David Fish, in Philadelphia, Penn- 



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sylvania, to Priscilla West, who was 
born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, 
May 30, 1873. Their only child is:— 

1— DOROTHY, born September, 27, 
1900, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

RICHARD BARTON was the sixth 
child of Mary Pish and Thomas Barton, 
and was born at Wigan, Lancashire. 
England, on October 31, 1874. He was 
married on October 28, 1903, to Cecelia 
Bartel Milward. 



JOHN PISH was the third child of 
Nicholas and Hannah Fish, and was 
born in the Broad Guards, Carlisle, Eng- 
land, on September 19, 1847, and died in 
the Broad Guards, Carlisle, England, on 
October 31, 1S48, aged thirteen months. 



JANE FISH, who was the fourth child 
of Nicholas and Hannah Fish, was born 




JANE FISH 



in the Broad Guards, Carlisle, England, 
September 2, 1849, and died in Padiham, 
Lancashire, England, March IS. 1899. She 
married Israel Hargreaves, a cotton spin- 



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ner, born September 22, 1851, in Padiham., 
Lancashire, England. Their children are: 

1— THOMAS EDWARD, born Feb- 
ruary 9, 1877, at Padiham, Lanca- 
shire, England. 

2— DAVID, born July 2, 1SS0, at Padi- 
ham, Lancashire, England; died 
there June 11, 1897. 

3— HANNAH, horn February 25, 18S3, 
at Padiham, Lancashire, England. 

±— VIOLET (twin), born September 
24, 1886, at Padiham, Lancashire, 
England. 

5— LILLY (twin), born September 24, 
1886, at Padiham, Lancashire, Eng- 
land. 



MARGARET FISH was tne fifth child 
of Nicholas and Hannah Fish, and waa 
born in Carlisle, England, on August 30, 




mai;<;akkt fish 



1S51. She was deeply interested in Church 
work and was connected officially with 
the Wesleyan Methodists, and later of the 
Primitive Methodists, of Padiham, Lan- 
cashire, England, where she died No- 
vember 21, 1902, aged 51 years. She was 
unmarried. 



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DAVID FISH was the sixth child of 
Nicholas and Hannah Fish, and was born 
November 11, 1S53, in Bridge Street, 
Caldewgate, Carlisle, in the county of 
Cumberland, England. He attended the 
Church of England Day Schools, West 
Walls, connected with St. Mary's Church, 
of which church he was a chorister for 
nearly two years. When about 12 years 
of age he was employed to sell news- 
papers to passengers on incoming and 
outgoing trains in the Citadel Station, 
Carlisle. Shortly after the death of his 




DAVID FISH 



father, the family moved into the North- 
east Division of Lancashire, locating in 
White Lee, near Burnley. While there 
David was employed in the warehouse of 
a cotton mill at Higham. His mother, 
not satisfied with her son being in a 
mill, sought a place for him in Padi- 
ham, where he learned the business of 
job printing, bookbinding and machine 
ruling, working with the same employer 
as apprentice and journeyman for over 
eleven years. During his stay in Padi- 
ham David obtained second class cer- 
tificates at the Science and Art examina- 
tions held by the Council on Education 



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in England. May 5 and 7, 1875, in the 
subjects of Physical Geography and An- 
imal Physiology. He became connected 
with the Wesleyan Methodists, taking an 
active part in both church and Sunday 
school work at Cross Bank, including the 
"Band of Hope" temperance organization 
connected with that place. He was also an 
active spirit in the Independent Order of 
Templars, occupying the responsible 
positions of Deputy G. \Y. C. T. for the 
years 1874-5-6, Visiting Deputy G. W. 
C. T. for the year 1877, District Superin- 




SAEAH AXX FISH (nee A.SHWORTH 



tendent of the Juvenile Branch of the 
Order for the Northeast Lancashire Dis- 
trict for the years 1877-8-9, Juvenile Tem- 
ple Superintendent for the years 1878-9, 
and Electoral Deputy G. W. C. T. for 
the year 1879. 

On Saturday, June 19, 1880, David left 
Liverpool, England, on the S. S. Bothnia, 
landing in New York on Wednesday, June 
30, 1880. On arriving in America he went 
to Philadelphia to live, where he ob- 
tained his naturalization paper on Sep- 
tember 17. 1886. He was induced to enter 
politics, and ran as an Independent Re- 
publican candidate for Common Council, 



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in the Twenty-eighth Ward, on February 
21, 1899, but was defeated. The following 
year, February 20, 1900, he was elected to 
Common Council for the term of two 
years. On retiring he was presented with 
the following engrossed resolution:— 

At a special meeting of Common Council of 
the City of Philadelphia, held April 3. 1902. the 
following was adopted: — 

Resolution of regret at the retirement of 
David Fish from Common Council. 

Whereas. David Fish, representative from 




WILLIAM NICHOLAS FISH 



the Twenty-eighth Ward, is about to sever his 
connection with Common Council of the City 
of Philadelphia, 

And whereas the said gentleman, having 
served the city with diligence and fidelity, it 
is the desire of Common Council to express its 
regret at his departure from this body; be it 
therefore 

Resolved by the Common Council of the City 
of Philadelphia, that it views with regret the 
retirement of David Fish from its midst, tes- 
tifying its appreciation of his service to his 
constituents and the city, and expressing its 
hope for his future welfare and prosperity; be 
it further 

Resolved, that a copy of this resolution be 
engrossed and framed and presented to the 
said David Fish. 

GEORGE McCURDY, 
President of Common Council. 

Attest. 
G. W. KOCHESPERGER. 

Chief Clerk of Common Council. 



From October, 1SS2, to November, 1890. 
David was connected with "The Phil- 
adelphia Press" morning newspaper in 
the various capacities of "sub" composi- 
tor, "ad" man, "makeup" man and as- 
sistant foreman, and on November 6, 
1890, was made foreman, which position 
he held for many years. He was married 
in Philadelphia from the home of his 
uncle, Richard Fish, on October 4, 1SS2. to 
Sarah Ann Ashworth, of Padiham, Lan- 
cashire, England, the Rev. Amos John- 




EDWARD CHARLES FISH 



son performing the ceremony. Sarah Ann 
Ashworth was the daughter of William 
and Mary Ashworth, and was born in 
Huncoat, near Accrington, Lancashire, 
England, on September 9, 1855. She left 
Liverpool on the S. S. Wisconsin, Septem- 
ber 23, 1882, and arrived in New York, Oc- 
tober 4, 1SS2. Their children are:— 



NICHOLAS, born July 



1— WILLIAM 

10, 1S83. 

2— EDWARD CHARLES, born Sep- 
tember 21, 1884. 

3— DAVID HARRISON, born Novem- 
ber 13. 1889. 

4-R1CHARD ASHWORTH, born Jan- 
uary 22. 1893. 



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WILLIAM NICHOLAS FISH was the 
first son of David and Sarah Ann Fish, 
and was born July 10, 1883, on Kensington 
Avenue, below Clearfield Street, Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated 
in the John F. Hartranft and M. Hall 
Stanton Schools, graduating from the lat- 
ter in June, 1898, and attended the Cen- 
tral High School for Boys for two years. 
At the age of 17 he began life by working 




DAVID HARBISON FISH 

in the composing room of "The Press," 
He was an active member of the Vesper 
Boat Club. 



EDWARD CHARLES FISH was the 
second son of David and Sarah Ann 
Fish, and was born September 21, 1884, 
in Moore Street. Kensington, Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania. He attended the John 
F. Hartranft and M. Hall Stanton public 
schools, passing from the latter to the 
Central High School for Boys in June. 
1899, and graduating from the Central 
High School in 1904 with the degree of 
Bachelor of Science in Economics (B. 
S. in E.). He was also elected Honor 
man of his class, and was prominent 
in High School athletics, being captain 
of both the Baseball and Football teams 
in 1903, and a member of the Basketball 



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team in 1904, when they won all three in- 
te [-scholastic championships. 

DAVID HARRISON FISH was the 
third son of David and Sarah Ann Fish, 
and was born November 13, 1889, in Frank- 
lin Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He 
attended the M. Hall Stanton school, grad- 
uating to the High School in June, 1904. 

RICHARD ASHWORTH FISH was the 
fourth sun of David and Sarah Ann Fish, 




KirilAKIi ASHWORTH FISH 



and was born January 22. 1893, in Frank- 
lin Street. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. He 
attended the M. Hall Stanton School. 

WILLIAM AND MARY ASHWORTH. 
William Ashworth, whose daughter 
was married to David Fish, was born at 
Houghton Barn. Altham, Lancashire. 
England, on March 25, 1826. He was the 
tenth of the eleven children of Peter 
and Sarah Ashworth. Peter Ashworth 
was born at Clough Bank, Altham. in 
1782, and died at Huncoat, Lancashire, 
England, on July 13. 1865. aged 83 years. 
He married Sarah Moorhouse, who was 
born at Castle Clough, Hapton, in 1785, 
and died at Huncoat on September 13, 
1867, in her 83d year. Sarah Moorhouse 



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WILLIAM ASHWORTH 




MARY ASHWORTH 



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was the daughter of James Moorhouse, 
who married Grace Riley. 

Mary Sagar, who was married to Will- 
iam Ashworth, was bom at Haugh Head, 
Simonstone. Lancashire, England, on 
March 25, 1824, and was the daughter of 
Hanson and Ann (nee Ormerod) Sagar. 
Hanson Sagar was born in 1796. at Cock- 
shut t Farm, Simonstone, England, and 
died at Lancaster, England, November 




james .moorhouse 



19. 1S69. aged 73 years. He was the son of 
John Sagar, who married Mattie Barrett. 
Ann Sagar was born in 1796. at Read. 
England, and died at Haugh Head, Eng- 
land, August 30, 1879, in her 84th year. 
She was the daughter of William 
< irmerod. 



ISABELLA FISH was the seventh child 
i 1 Nicholas and Hannah Fish, and was 
born March 2, 1855, in Carlisle, England. 
In 1899 she married William Harrison, of 
Padiham, England, who was born May 5, 
1836. in Uldale, Cumberland County, Eng- 
land. His father, John Harrison, was 
born June 18, 1805, in Dean, near Cocker- 
mouth, and died February 1. 1885, in 
Cockermou-th, England, and his mother, 
Ann Harrison, was born July 15, 1810, in 



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Millbeck, near Keswick, England, and 
clied April 1, 1882, in Cockermouth, Eng- 
land. There was no issue. 



RICHARD FISH was the eighth child 
of Nicholas and Hannah Fish, and was 
born in Carlisle, England, on Christmas 
Day (December 25), 1856. He was engaged 
in the drygoods and stationery business. 




ISABELLA FISH 



He was badly shaken and cut in a rail- 
road accident, on Whitmonday, 1883, at 
Lockerbie, Scotland, on the Caledonian 
Railway, the serious effects of which 
never left him. He was unmarried. 



WILLIAM FISH was the ninth child 
of Nicholas and Hannah Fish, and was 
born in Carlisle, England, on November 
3, 1858. He was educated for a school 
teacher, but instead elected to enter com- 
mercial life and was engaged in the iron 
trade in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. 
While in Blackburn he became a member 
of the "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Soc- 
iety," before which he delivered a lecture 
on Monday, December 25, 1893. on "In- 
sects, Their Life, Use, and Benefit to 



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KirilAKIi FISH 




WILLIAM FISH 



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.Mankind," giving incidents and experi- 
ments of a very interesting character. 
He was unmarried. 



LAWSON FREDERICK FISH was the 
tenth child of Nicholas and Hannah Fish, 
and was born in Carlisle, England, on 
December 2, 1860. He served an appren- 
ticeship as a painter, paperhanger and 
decorator, and on becoming a journey- 
man, engaged in business for himself 
in Accrington, England. He married 




LAWSON FREDERICK FISH 

Elizabeth Agnes Ayrton, born Septem- 
ber 11, 1860, in Burnley, Lancashire, Eng- 
land, their marriage on April 29, 1886, be- 
ing the first celebrated in the Primitive 
Chapel, Padiham. Their children are:— 

1— FREDERICK, born May 20, 1887, 
in Padiham, Lancashire England. 

2— HARRY, born June 14, 1889, in Ac- 
crington, Lancashire England. 

3— MAGGIE, born January 9, 1891, in 
Accrington, Lancashire England. 

4— TOM, born October 11, 1892, in Ac- 
crington, Lancashire England. 



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5— ARTHUR, born June 30, 1894, in 
Accrington, Lancashire, England. 

6— EDWARD DUNCOMBE, born Jan- 
uary 4, 1896, in Accrington, Lanca- 
shire, England. 

7— RICHARD, born August 6. 1898, in 
Accrington, Lancashire, England. 

8— DAVID, born March 16, 1902, in Ac- 
crington, Lancashire. England. 



A XX FISH was the eleventh child of 
Nicholas and Hannah Fish, and was 
born February 3, 1864, in Carlisle, Eng- 
land, where she died February 5, 1864. 

HA XX AH FISH was the twelfth and 
last child of Xicholas and Hannah Fish. 




HANNAH FISH. 



and was born in Carlisle. England, on 
March 14, 1S65. She was unmarried.' 



JOHN FISH 

John Fish, who was the second child 
of Edward and Hannah Fish, was born 
September 4. 1827. and died September 
13, 1839, aged 12 years. 



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RICHARD FISH 

Richard Fish was the third child of 
Edward and Hannah Fish, and was born 
in Carlisle, England, March 9, 1829. He 
came to America in 1852. He volunteered 
his services during the Morgan riots in 
Ohio, but was never enlisted, although he 
served with a body of citizens, who were 
engaged in an effort to capture Morgan. 
He married Margaret Bell, who was born 
in Carlisle, England, June 13, 1832. She 




Kh'IIARD FISH 



came to America in 1855, and died in Phil- 
adelphia, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1901, 
aged 69 years. Richard Fish died in Phil- 
adelphia, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1900, 
aged 71 years. Their children are:— 

1-ELIZABETH, born Dec. 2, 1851. 

2— GEORGE WASHINGTON, born 

September 14, 1S57. 
3— EDWARD, born April 16, 1S60. 
4— EDWARD BELL, born March 29, 

1861. 
5— EMMA, born June 29, 1S66. 



ELIZABETH FISH was the first child 
of Richard and Margaret Fish, and was 
born in Carlisle, England, December 2", 



73 



1851. She was married in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, to David Midgley, horn 
in Yorkshire, England, in 1839. Their 
only child is:— 

1— MARGARET, born May 10, 1871: 

MARGARET MIDGLET was the only 
child of Elizabeth Fish and David Midg- 
ley, and was born in Philadelphia. Penn- 
sylvania, on May 10, 1871. She was edu- 

ited in the public schools of Philadel- 
phia, graduated in 1SS8 from the Philadel- 




MARGARET FISH (nee BELL) 



phia High School for Girls, and filled the 
position of teacher in the Lucretia Motl 
Combined Primary and Secondary School 
from September, 1889, until June, 1897. She 
married George Steinman. Jr., born in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 
27, 1871. Their only child is:— 

1— MARGARET ELIZABETH, born 
May 16, 1901, in Philadelphia, Pa. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON FISH was 
the second child of Richard and Margar- 
et Fish, and was born in Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania, on September 14, 1857. He 
was educated in the public schools, 
and attended the Central High School. 



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He married Sylvania Ward, who was 
born April 13, 1859, in Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania. She was a daughter of John 
Spence and Emma Ward, of Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, formerly of Leicestershire, 
England. Their children are:— 

1— EDNA EMMA, born January 31. 
1882, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 
died there August 6, 1S82. 
2— RICHARD, born March 17, 1883, in 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
3— JOHN CHALLIS. born January 21, 
1886, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
4— MARGARET, born September 5, 
1888, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
5— ANNA MAY, born February IS, 
1890, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 
died there June 29, 1892. 
6—GEORGE WASHINGTON, born 
July 3. 1891, in Philadelphia Penn- 
sylvania; died there July 24, 1891. 
7— SYLVANIA, born April 28, 1895, in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died 
there July 1, 1895. 
8— CLARA, born December 13, 1898, in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



EDW ARD FISH was the third child of 
Richard and Margaret Fish, and was 
born April 16. 1860, in Columbus, Ohio, 
where he died June 14, 1S60, being short 
of two months old. 



EDWARD BELL FISH was the fourth 
child of Richard and Margaret Fish, and 
was born March 29, 1861, in Columbus, 
Ohio, and died July 8, 1900, in Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania. 



EMMA FISH was the fifth and last 
child of Richard and Margaret Fish, 
and was born June 29, 1S66. in Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania, where she died Au- 
gust 6, 1866, being only thirty-eight days 

old. 



MARGARET FISH 

Margaret Fish, who was the fourth 
child of Edward and Hannah Fish, was 
born in Carlisle, England, on November 
3. 1835, and died in Brown Township. 
Miami County, Ohio, on December 7, 
1880. She came to America with her pa- 
rents in May, 1S53. She was one of the 
most amiable of women, a most dutiful 
mother, and beloved by all who knew her. 
Margaret was married Dec. 21, 1871, to 
John Young, a farmer, who was born in 



75 



Orange Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
on January 27, 1833. Margaret was John 
Young's second wife. He married his 
first wife. Hannah Jane Beer, on May 31, 
1863, and to that union two children were 
born. Hannah Jane died April 28, 1866. 




MARGARET FISH 

John Young became a member of the 
Spring Creek Christian Church January 
28, 1877, and continued his membership up 
to his death, on .March 5, 1904. The only 
child of -Margaret Fish and John Young 
was:— 

1— EDWARD DILLMAN, born March 
18, 1873. 

John Young marrii d again cm April 11, 
1882, his third wife being Calista Jane 
Williams, who was born in Spring Crei k 
Township, Miami County, Ohio, on Au- 
gust 2. 1845. Their children are:— 

1— MYRTLE, born February 16, 18s:;. 
. 2-MELLIE JANE, born Aug. 7, 1887. 



EDWARD DILLMAN YOUNG was the 
only child of Margaret Fish and John 
Young, and was born in Brown Town- 
ship, Miami County, Ohio, on March 18, 
I s .::. He married Annie Birch, who was 



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born in Piqua, Ohio, September 24, 1867. 
Their children are:— 

1— MAGGIE MARIE, bom in St. 

Mary's, Ohio, January 18, 1896. 
2— JOHN RAYMOND, born in Con- 
over, Ohio, October 20, 1897. 
3— HAZEL DELL, born in Brown 
Township, Miami County, Ohio, 
May 26, 1899. 



JANE FISH 

Jane Fish was the fifth and last child 
of Edward and Hannah Fish, and was 
born in Shadongate, Carlisle, Cumber- 
land County. England, on March 8, 1838. 




JANE FISH 

She came to America with her parents 
in May, 1853. They left Liverpool, in 
March, 1853, on the sailing vessel, "Rob- 
ert Kelley." When on the ocean a few 
days their ship became disabled and 
was forced to return to Liverpool 
for repairs, where she remained several 
days before again attempting to cross 
the ocean. It was an exceedingly rough 
voyage, the trip requiring five weeks and 
three days. They landed in New York, 
and without delay journeyed to Ohio, set- 
tling in Orange Township, Shelby Coun- 



ty. Jane Fish was married on May 1, 1856, 
to John Dillman Dickensheets, who was 
born in Bellbrook, Montgomery County, 
Ohio, on January 29, 1832. from Bell- 
brook Air. Dickensheets' parents moved 
to Shelby County when it was a dense 
t. Here they entered a farm of 80 
teres, the land being obtained from the 
Government, and began the work of 
clearing. A iog cabin was first erected 

in the w Is. and from this primitive 

beginning the farm was made, each y< ir 
a few more acres being cleared for culti- 
vation. Mr. Dickensheets. who was the 
oldest of a family of twelve children, 
" a carpenter an 1 afterward 
was i contractor ami builder for many 




JOHN DILLMAN DICKENSHEETS 

years. He was employed by the Board ol 
Education to look after one of the ward 
schools. John Dillman Dickensheets. li- 
ter his marriage, moved to Burlington 
Iowa, where they remained one year, 
then returning to Green Township, Shel- 
by County. Ohio. On April 11. 1867, they 
moved to Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, 
where they now reside. Their children 
are:— 

1— EDWARD FRANCIS, born Febru- 
ary 3, 1S57. 



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2— FREDERICK ORLANDO, born Au- 
gust 16, 1858. 

3— IDA MONONA, born Dec. 5, 1860. 

4— JESSE LOGAN, born March 15, 
1863. 

5— JOHN MILTON, born Jan. 21, 1867. 



EDWARD FRANCIS DICKENSHEETS. 
who was the first child of Jane Fish and 
John Dillman Dickensheets, was born 
in Burlington, Iowa, on February 3. 
1857, and died in Green Township, Shelby 
County, Ohio, on March 12, 1858. 



FREDERICK ORLANDO DICKEN- 
SHEETS, the second child of Jane Fish 
and John Dillman Dickensheets, was born 
in Green Township, Shelby County, Ohio, 
August 16. 1S5S. He came to Sidney, 
Ohio, with his parents on April 11, 1N67. 
and at once entered the Sidney public 
schools. In 1875 he entered the office 
of "The Sidney Journal." where he re- 
mained five years, holding the dual po- 
sition of local reporter and compositor. 
On May 3, 1S80, he left home to seek his 
fortune in the West, working as a com- 
positor for a time on "The Denver Re- 
publican" and on the reportorial staff of 
that paper. Frederick Orlando"s ability 
was so marked that in a short time he 
was made City Editor, and kept advanc- 
ing as the paper became more metropoli- 
tan. He was the first to hold the position 
of News and Night Editor, which chair 
he held for more than twenty years, and 
was known as one of the best news- 
paper men west of the Missouri River. 
He was one of the organizers and at one 
time vice-president of the Denver Ath- 
letic Club, and was also instrumental in 
instituting Lodge No. 17, of the Elks, in 
Denver. On November 29, 1883, Frederick 
Orlando Dickensheets married Josephine 
Forcburg, who was born in Stockholm, 
Sweden, on January 22, 1861. Their only 
child is:— 

1— DELLA, born October 15, 1884, in 
Denver, Colorado. 



IDA MONONA DICKENSHEETS was 
the third child of Jane Fish and John 
Dillman Dickensheets, and was born on 
a farm in Orange Township, Shelby 
County, Ohio, December 5, 1S60. She 
moved to Sidney, Shelby County. Ohio, 
with her parents when six years of age. 
and graduated from the Sidney High 
School in the Class of 1879. At the time- 



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of her death on September 4, 1900, in Sid- 
ney, Shelby County, Ohio, she was 
a member of the First Presbyterian 
Church, an active worker in the Mission- 
ary Society, a member of two social 
clubs, and the Order of Rebekahs and 
Maccabees, and was a prominent mem- 
ber of the Ivy Club, a literary organiza- 
tion. On her death, the Ivy Club mem- 
bers secured a volume of references and 
quotations, and placed it in the Sidney 
Public Library in her memory. Her 
name is inscribed on the back thereof in 
gold. Tlie club also presented the parents 
and husband and child with the follow- 
ing memorial, beautifully engrossed:— 

"IVY CLUB MEMORIAL." 

"To put upon memory's page a memorial I al 
will not fade ami soften our personal bereave- 
nii n!s t,i a sure] men i 

"This life was so blended with onrs. causing 
hearts t" Deal in unison like sweet music in 
holy diapason. 

"\\'e approach this tender service, asking 

1 11 p. 1 1 a ju-i tribut e to a friend s > dear, 
who was 'in,. ,,i the brightest ami besl : 

in our circle; one who was always cheerful and 
ever mindful of the happiness of others, as well 
as enduring the hardships which compose 
'Life's Battle March.' 

"Endowed with the true spirit of womanlu c! 

at tin- altar of h e— where her Iighl shone 

tlie brightest making the sweet companii n- 

ship of wife, ther <>r friend a heaven of 

hope in a st"i nn si a. 

"To i lie shrine of her memory v. ill we evei 
go t" pay our homage: to the stricken husband 
ami child, father, mother ami brothers we can 
offer only the companionship of a sympathetic 
heart, ever believing that the sweet blending 

of our lives with dear -s upon this earth is 

hut an earnest of what will he in the '■ a1 
I thereafter. 

'There is mi death: what seems s" i- 
transit ion. 

This life of mortal breath 
Is but a siilmiii of i he lif,. Elj sia i, 
Whose portals are death.' " 

Ida Monona Dickensheets was mar- 
ried on March 8, Inn:;, te George Ray 
Loudenback. who was born mi a farm 
near Urbana. Champaign County, Ohio. 
on March 4. 1849, wlure he remained un- 
til 1879, when he moved to Urbana. be- 
e iming a dealer in agricultural imple- 
ments and farm machinery. In the year 
1881 he was engaged with a firm of man- 
ufacturers of farm machinery, with head- 
quarters at Hamilton. Ohio, as their 
travt ling representative, continuing with 
them for eleven years. In 1892 he lo- 
cated in Sidney, where he opened a gen- 
eral implement store, dealing in bicycles 
and sundries. There he soon became 
prominent in local politics, and in 1897 



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was elected a member of the Board of 
Water Works Trustees, and re-elected 
in 1900. In 1903 he was prevailed upon to 
make the rac 1 for member of the Board 
of Public Service, be receiving- the larg- 
est majority of any candidate of either 
ticket. Their only child is: — 

1— MARGARET ANN, born May 23, 
1897, in Sidney, Shelby County, 
Ohio. 



JESSE LOGAN DICKENSHEETS. who 
was the fourth child of Jane Fish and 
John Dillman Dickensheets, was born on 
a farm in Orange Township. Shelby 
County, Ohio, on March 15, 1863, and 
moved to Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, 
with his parents when but four years 
of age. His education was obtained in 
the Sidney public schools. At the age 
of 17 he entered the office of "The Sid- 
ney Journal," where he remained five 
years. He then went to Springfield, 
Ohio, and after two years' experience 
there in job printing, he went to Denver. 
Colorado, where he soon became 
a valued reporter of "The Den- 
ver Republican," being advanced to 
Assistant City Editor. Having obtain- 
ed the experience desired, he return- 
ed to Sidney, Ohio, and began the pub- 
lication of "The Sidney Gazette," which 
he continued until November. 1898. when 
he disposed of his interests to ac- 
cept the management of the Sidney 
Telephone Company. Jesse Logan 
Dickensheets was prominently identi- 
fied with secret societies, being a mem- 
ber of Sidney Lodge No. 7S6, B. P. 
O. E; Summit Lodge No. 50. Knights of 
Pythias, and M. R. Waite Council No. 
1091. Royal Arcanum. He was married 
on November 22, 1888, to Jennie McCas- 
lin, who was born in Xenia, Ohio on Au- 
gust 21. 1863. She was the only daughter 
of the Rev. Robert McCa.slin. D D., and 
Mary (Smith) McCaslin. The Rev. Dr. 
McCaslin occupied the pulpit of the First 
Presbyterian Church in Sidney for thir- 
ty-one years. There was no issue. 

JOHN MILTON DICKENSHEETS, 
who was the fifth and last child of Jane 
Fish and John Dillman Dickensheets, 
was born in Orange Township, Shelby 
County, Ohio, on January 21, 1867, and 
died in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, on 
May 1, 1881. 



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